Greenhead Village & Walltown

Greenhead is a village and chapelry, and in November 1892, was formed into an ecclesiastical parish, comprising the townships of Blenkinsopp and Thirlwall; Greenhead is on the Tipalt burn. Here crossed by a stone bridge of two arches, connecting it with Glenwhelt; it has a station on the Newcastle and Carlisle section of the North Eastern railway, and is 3 miles west by north from Haltwhistle in the Hexham division of the county. Tindale ward. Haltwhistle petty sessional division. Union and county court district rural deanery of Hexham, and archdeaconry of Northumberland and diocese of Newcastle. The church, erected in 1827 at a cost of £800, is a building of stone in the Gothic style. Consisting of nave and a western tower with spire. Containing one bell: it was thoroughly restored .in 1879, at a cost of 1:1,000, when the stained east Window was presented you the late Edward Joicey esq.: in 1900 a chancel was added by E. Joicey esq. in memory of his father. And the nave restored: the old roof and ceiling being replaced 'by an open timbered roof, the tower also received a new parapet with four pinnacles and a spire was added: the pulpit. And choir stalls are of oak, and there is an elegant reredos, the gift of Mrs. Edward Joicey: an organ chamber was also built; the total cost amounted to about £3,500, and in 1908 an organ was presented by Edward Joicey esq. the register dates from the year 1827. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £250 in the gift of the vicar of Haltwhistle and Edward Joicey esq. D.L., J.P. alternately, and held since 1896 by the Rev. John Thomas Anderton. of St. Bees. Edward Joicey esq. of Blenkinsopp Hall erected the vicarage house near the church. And Ecclesiastical Commissioners conjointly The Primitive Methodist chapel, erected in 1885 at a Cost of £636. Is a building of stone. Seating 230 persons. Greenhead Parish Reading Room was erected in 1898 by Edward Joicey esq. in the centre of the village is a drinking fountain, erected in 1869. As a memorial to John Blenkinsopp Coulson esq. by his widow and a few friends. Edward Joicey esq. of Blenkinsopp Hall is the chief landowner. The population of the parish in 1901 was 491 the area is 13,038 acres. Sexton. Peter Riley.

Post. M. 0. & T. Office Greenhead. Miss Beatrice Millican. Sub-postmistress. Letters delivered from Carlisle at 8.30 a.m.; dispatched to Newcastle at 4.45 p.m.; to Carlisle at 6.Io p.m. Sundays. Arrive from Carlisle, 8.15 a.m. (for callers only); dispatched to Carlisle, 6.45 p.m. to Newcastle. 6.45 p.m. Parcels for the 6.I5 p.m. dispatch to Carlisle accepted I until 6 p.m.

Police Station, Alexander MacDougall. Constable

Pubic Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1893. With masters house. At a cost of £2,000, defrayed by Edward Joicey Esq. RL. J.P. & Messrs. Thompson & Sons. For I20 boys & 120 girls average attendance. 40 boys & 60 girls; William Teasdale, master; infants. School, erected about 1896, for 120 infants; average, attendance, 50; Miss Louisa Robins. Mistress of the infant school.

Railway Station, Greenhead, David George Malpas, stationmaster

Anderton Rev. John Thomas (vicar), The Vicarage

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Blenkinsopp & Thirlwall Cemetery (Moralee Wilkinson, clerk to the . joint burial committee) I

Dixon James, joiner, Smallburn

Forrester Bell, farmer, Holmhead

Foster Joseph, farmer, New hall

Greenhead Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd. (Joseph Hetherington, sec. Wm. G. T. Paterson,manager

Greenhead Parish Reading Room 1 (William Teasdale, hon. sec)

Hetherington Isaac, joiner

Millican Beatrice (Miss), shopkeeper & postmistress

Mulcaster William, Greenhead hotel

Nicholson George, blacksmith

Pickering George, farmer, Glenwhelt

Potts Edward, farmer, Bank top

Reay Cath. (Mrs.), farmer.

Riddle George, farmer Carvoran

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Burn Thomas, shepherd to Messrs. R. & M. Thompson

Mitchell James, farmer, Wall shields

Northumberland Whinstone Co. Lim. (Joseph Hetherington, manager), quarryowners

Pickering George & Sons, farmers, Low Old Shlelds

Robson Henry, farmer, Low town

Stottert Thomas William & Symon,  Cleughfoot

Thompson R. & Matthew, farmers, Wall Town farm

Wilkinson William, farmer, High Low TipaIt

Woodman William W farmer, Chesters