Lambley, Ashholme & Harper town

LAMBLEY is a small parish, 4 miles south-by-south-west from Haltwhistle and 8 north-by-west from Alston, in Cumberland, comprising the joint townships or manors of Lambley and Asholme, and several scattered farms lying on both sides of the South Tyne, which passes through the parish;.

Lambley and Coanwood. stations on the Alston and Haltwhistle branch of the North Eastern railway, which crosses the river by a viaduct, upwards of 100 feet in height, with nine main arches of 66 feet span, and seven of 20 feet span each:

The parish is in the Hexham division of the county, west division of Tindale ward and Haltwhistle petty sessional division, union and county court district, and in the rural deanery of Hexham, archdeaconry of Northumberland and diocese of Newcastle.

The church St.Mary and Patrick, standing on an eminence, was rebuilt in 1885, on the site of an older structure, at a cost of £1,600, and is an edifice of stone in . the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, north vestry and a western turret, containing one bell, presented by Miss Allgood. of Hexham the old Sanctus bell which formerly belonged to the Benedictine convent, suppressed at the Dissolution, has been removed to the east end of the nave: in the porch a stoup: a new organ was provided in 1897: in 1909 stained glass windows were placed in the east end of the church in memory of the late Rev. A. C. C. Vaughan M.A. (d. 1909), vicar here 1866-96: there are 150 sittings. The register dates from the year 1744. The churchyard was enlarged in 1909. The living is a vicarage, net yearly' value £197, with residence, in the gift of the Rev. James Allgood M.A, of Nunwick Hall, and held since 1898 by the Rev. Charles Horatio Gulliver, of Caius College, Cambridge.

Sexton, William Bell.

Here was formerly a Benedictine nunnery, founded in the time of King John, by Adam de Tynedale, and dedicated to St. Patrick; at the Dissolution there were six nuns, and revenues valued at £5.

The Coanwood Coal Co. works coal in the parish. The principal landowners are the Rev. James Allgood M.A. of Nunwick Hall, Simonburn, who is lord of the manor, Jas Hope Wallace esq. of Featherstone Castle, Haltwhistle and T. and .H. Whitfield esquires. The soil is sandy and clay subsoil, mixed. The chief crops are oats and turnips.
The area is 2,996 acres of land and 63 of water; rateable value £2,018 ; the population in 1901 was 570

ASHOLME forms a joint township with Lambley, but is a separate manor, on the east bank of the Tyne, opposite Lambley. James Hope Wallace esq. is lord of the manor

HARPER TOWN is a small hamlet, consisting of two farms and some cottages, near the church. Here is a Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1871, at a cost of £270, and in affording 120 sittings.

Post Office Railway station, Lambley. William Roberts's sub-postmaster. Letters through Carlisle arrive at 8.3o a.m. dispatched 6.35 p.m. ; no delivery on Sundays. The nearest telegraph office is at Slaggyford & nearest money order office at Tindale Fell

Railway Station, Lambley, William. Roberts, stationmaster

Gulliver Rev. Charles Horatio (vicar) The Vicarage

Whitfield Mrs Mary, Haper Town

Commercial

Bell Elizabeth Mrs, Shopkeeper

Birkett Thomas William, farmer & assistant overseer

Brown John, farmer, Greenriggs

Coanwood Coal Co. (Wm. Walton, Sec) Howe Robert, farmer, Asholme

Liddell Edward, farmer, Woodhouse

Moore William, farmer, Whitwham

Neave George farmer, Waughold Holm

Richardson Jn. shoemaker Harper Town

Smith Joseph, farmer, Harper Town

Todd William, farmer, Harper Town

Whitfield Thomas, Hay farmer Harper Town