Coanwood
COANWOOD township embraces the small hamlets of Garbutt Hill and Wolf Hills, and several scattered farms; it lies in a valley, from 3 to 4 miles south from the town of Haltwhistle, and has a station on the Alston branch of the North Eastern railway, in Lambley parish. There is a small meeting house here belonging to the Society of Friends, erected in 1760, part of which is used as a circulating library and is open every Saturday evening. The Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1883, at a cost of £425, is a building of stone, seating 200 persons,
The
coal in this township is worked by the
Burnhouse Coal Co, and Coanwood Coal Co. (William Walton, sec)
Hetherington Robert. colliery manager, Herdley bank
John R. Blackett Ord esq. J.P. of Whitfield Hall, is lord of the manor and principal landowner; the remainder is owned mostly by resident farmers The township contains 3,310 acres of land and 8 of water; ratable value, £.I,149;the population in 1901 was 97, employed partly in the collieries
POST OFFICE, Coanwood Mrs. Miles Ridley sub-postmistress. Letters through Carlisle, arrive at 8:35 a.m. ; dispatched at 6.52 p.m, ; no delivery on Sundays. Haltwhistle is the nearest money order & telegraph office for delivery & the railway station for collection of telegrams, which is closed on Sundays
Public Elementary School, Herdley Bank (mixed) for the parish of Lambey, built in 1864 by the Coanwood Coal Co, for 120 children; average attendance, 85, Benjamin R. Beal master ,
Coanwood Railway Station, Charles Hammond, station master
Private Residents
Bowman Mrs. Mount Pleasant
Wallace Miss, Newstone house
Walton William, Herdley bank
Commercial
Armstrong Sarah (Mrs.), cowkeeper, Stonehouse
Bell Joseph, farmer, Stonehouse
Burnhouse Coal Co
Cleminson Hannah (Mrs. ), farmer, Wolf hills
Coanwood Industrial Co-operative Society
Limited (Thos. B. Hetherington Sec. William Lowry, manager), Herdley bank
Creighton Jane (Miss), dress maker, Low
Herdley
Cowe George, farmer, Burn house
Crowe Joseph, farmer, Burnt walls
Crowe Thomas, farmer, Greensike
Edgar Frederick, farmer, Birch trees
Hall Robert, gamekeeper to Ernest A. Webster
esq. Low Byer
Hudspeth John, farmer, Dykes
Hutchinson Joseph. shoemaker. Lane head
Mitcheson Thomas, farmer, Moss house
Moore William, farmer, Whithwham
Oliver William (the trustees of the late),
farmers, West Garbutt hill
Pattinson Mary (Mrs.), farmer. Woodhouse
Pattinson Matthew, farmer & land owner, East
Garbutt hill
Pearson Leonard, farmer, Towsbank
Renwick Thomas, farmer, Yont-the- Cleugh
Riddell Edward, farmer, Woodhouse
Ross John, farmer, Towsbank
Smith Jacob, farmer, Shafthill
Snowball Edward. farmer. High Ramshaw
Spark William. beer retailer, Chapel house
Wigham John J. farmer, Hargill house
Wigham William, farmer, Coldshields