Horsley, Northumberland

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Horsley
Northumberland
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North Farm, Horsley
Location
Grid reference: NZ095665
Location: 54°59’35"N, 1°51’11"W
Data
Population: 405  (2011)
Post town: Newcastle Upon Tyne
Postcode: NE15
Dialling code: 01661
Local Government
Council: Northumberland
Parliamentary
constituency:
Hexham

Horsley is a small village in Northumberland ten miles west of Newcastle upon Tyne and ten miles east of Hexham. The A69 road used to pass through the village but now bypasses the village just to the north.

Sights about the village

Welton Hall

Two miles north-west of the village are the remains of a mediæval manor house and tower house at Welton Hall, now located within a farm complex. The tower house dates from the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century and is roofless. The manor house is even older, but has been much altered and rebuilt.[1]

Rudchester Hall

Two miles north-east of Horsley is the site of the Roman fort of Vindobala, of which little is now visible. Nearby is Rudchester Hall, a mediæval pele tower, much altered and extended in Gothick style in the 18th and 19th centuries.[2]

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References

  1. Welton Hall, Horsley - British Listed Buildings
  2. Rudchester Hall - British Listed Buildings