Family History

15 Apr 2026

I’ve identified many of the places mentioned in the Hexham and Whitley parish registers, and in the various wills

Hexhamshire Low Quarter

  • Dotland, hamlet (54.931453,-2.123674) (nls map)
  • Dotland Park, farmhouse (54.936373,-2.108941) (nls map)
  • Shield Green, farmhouse (54.943108, -2.119515) (nls map)
  • Oxenrods, house (54.943185,-2.129640) (nls map)
  • Fell House (maybe Dotland Fell), farmhouse (54.935600,-2.150636) (nls map) (actually Dotland Fell-house was absorbed into Dotland by c.1890)

Hexhamshire Middle Quarter

  • Whitley Chapel, church (54.914182,-2.113844) (nls map)
  • Ordley, hamlet (54.928991,-2.082972) (nls map)
  • Finechambers, house (54.924095,-2.091269) (nls map)
  • Finechambers mill, mill (54.923200,-2.090137) (nls map)
  • Blackhall, farmhouse (54.923011,-2.103302) (nls map)
  • Peth Head (54.923228,-2.098708) (nls map)
  • Salmon Field, farmhouse (54.904388,-2.136087) (nls map)
  • Woodside (not found)
  • Dalton, hamlet (54.917683,-2.128991) (nls map)

Hexhamshire, High Quarter

  • High Park House, farmhouse, (54.876448,-2.129530) (nls map)
  • Broadwell House, farmhouse (54.876862,-2.139199) (nls map)
  • Peacock House, farmhouse (54.889938,-2.124878) (nls map)
  • Long Lee, farmhouse, (54.862969,-2.127852) (nls map)
  • Hill House, farmhouse, (54.865925,-2.127307) (nls map)
  • Stobbylee (Stobbilee), (54.862695,-2.138829) farmhouse (nls map)
  • New House, farmhouse (54.867586,-2.127390) (nls map)
  • Hackford, farmhouse (54.883235,-2.113291) (nls map)
  • Greenways, farmhouse (54.879271,-2.126411) (nls map)

Shotley (adjacent parish)

  • Embley, farmhouse (54.885937,-2.112018) (nls map)

Slaley (adjacent parish)

  • Strothers, farmhouse (54.908818,-2.041599) (nls map)

Blanchland (adjacent parish)

  • Birkside, farmhouse (54.851032,-2.081243) (nls map)