f!IRECTOKY.J NORTHUMBERLAND. HALTWHISTLE. 145 floor is occupied by the police station; the whole was earthworks, 4 feet in height. About 2 miles north of sold to the county about I 897, and is now used solely the town runs the Roman wall of Hadrian and Severns, for petty sessions, county court and police purpCarlisle, a. distance of 73~ miles, and supposed w have large hall, used for concerts and entertainments, read­ been origmally at least 15 feet in height : though fre­ ing rooms, billiard rooms &c. ; it has a library of quently built along a line of ridges, at a considerable about 1,400 volumes. llere are three banks: the London altitude, the outside stones were dressed and squared: Joint Stock Bank Limited, the London City and Mid­ there was also a ditch and vallum or turf wall to the­ land Bank Limited (formerly the Carlisle City nnd same extent, with camps or stations every four miles. Di,trict Bank), and the ~ orth Eastern Banking Co. castles at every mile, and watch towers between every Limited. There are collieries, a manufactory for fire castle : the wall is generally believed to have been meant bricks and drain pipes and a varnish manufactory. as a territorial boundary, but as there were Roman The South Tyne Agricultural Society holds a yearly stations for some distance north of the wall its purpose ~now in September. The market, for which a charter was more probably that of a military outpost and defence: "as granted by Edward I. in I306, has now beeome the whole district, which continued in a state of constant almost extinct. Auctions are held here for the sale of disturbance from the Roman invasion to the Norman store and fat cattle and sheep. The town retains two old p!'riod, and thence through the Scottish and succession fcrtifitJd buildings, supposed to have been the residences wars, as well !IS from local broils and feuds caused by at different periods of the bailiffs of the town. At the the lawless raids of moss-troopers and freebooters, is full east end of the town is an ancient and massive tower, of historical and antiquarian interest. The atmosphere iJ the walls of which are several feet in thickness ; it is pure, the country being open. The surrounding scenery, loopholed and has a parapet carried on corbels, and a wild but piduresque, is diversified by mossy hills and stGne staircase ri,;mg to the roof: the building has rocky dells with rivulets and streams well stocked with been modernizrd and converted into a dwelling-house, fish. The farms are mostly fPlls and common lands, in­ but the floors and roof, which consisted of stone flags closed for stock, for which they afford abundant pas­ laid on roughly-hewn oak trees, have been H'movt>d turage. Along the banks of the Tyne the land is arable The Red Lion hotel consists in part of a strongly-built and yields gnod crops of oats and other cereals. Messrs. embattled tower, the walls, from 4 to 7 feet thick, Adamsfln, of Newcastle, hold the manorial rights. Ernest being loopholed; on the west side is a stone staircase A. Webster esq. J.P. of Unthank Hall, and Edward rising to the upper floors, which are supported by Joicey esq. J.P. of Blenkinsopp Hall, are the chief land­ rouglily-hewn beams ; the front has been plastered and owners. The area of the township is 3,090 acres of land paintPd, but the parts facing north and east remain and 44 of water ; rateable value, £rg,465 ; the popula­ in their original state. In the parish are also the ruins tion of the township in 19II was 3,979, including 2" of five other towers, three of which have been converted officers and 44 inmates in the workhouse, and in the into farmhouses. The Castle hill is a natural mound, ecclesiastical parish, 5,:;!09. the summit of which is defended on three sides by Sexton, Edward Steele.

OFJ.<'ICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, LOCAL INSTITUTIONS &c. Poot, ~- 0., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office,' Officials. :Oiain street (letters should have Northumberland . Clerk to the Council, Thomas Dryden, Halt-whistle added).-Henry Scott Graham, postmaster. Letters' Treasurer, John McClare Clark J.P. London Joinli Stock arrive from ~ewcastle & Hexham at 7·55 a.m.; from Bank Limited, Haltwhistle :Xewcastle at 4 p.m.; from Carlisle at 7.20 a.m. & 5-5. Medical Officer of Health, John Morley Glasse M.B., p.m.; dispatched, Newcastle, ro.2o a.m. & 2.40 p.m. • Ch.B.Edin. Fans house, Haltwbistle & Hexham, 2-40 & 7 p.m.; to Carlisl~, II.IO a.m. & Highway. Surveyor, Henry A. Murray, Council offices, 3.4o, 6.IO & 8.15 p.m. Sunday, arnve from New-·1 Haltwh1stle castle & Rexham, 8.55 a.m.; Carlisle, 8.5 a.m.; dis- Sanitary Impector, James Doughty, Council offices, patched, :Newca.stle & Hexham, 6.15 p.m. & Carlisle, Haltwhistle 6.r5 p.m. Deliveries commence at 7.50 a.m. (re­ H.A.LTWHISTLE UNION. stricted), 8.30 a.m. & 5.30 p.m. week days & 9·I5 · a.m. on sundays Board day, thursday, fortnightly, at the Union offices. Wall Letter Boxes.-Westerley terrace, cleared at 9·55 at r p.m. a.m. & 2.30, 5-45 & 7-30 p.m. week days only; Town l'he following places are in Haltwhistle union :-Bellister, foot, cleared at 11.30 a.m. & 6.45 p.m. week days Blenkinsopp, Coanwood, Featherstone, Haltwhistle, only; Plenmeller road, cleared at ro a.m. & 2. 30, 5·45 Hartleyburn, Henshaw, Kirkhaugh, Knarr~d,.>e, LJ.mb­ & 7.30 p.m. week days only ley, Melkridge, Plenmeller, Ridley, Thirlwall, Thorn­ grafton, Wall Town, Whitfield. The population of the COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR THE HALTWHISTLE union in rgrr was 8,545; area, 96,323 acres; rateable PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISION. value in 1914, £79,776 Joicey Edwd. D.L. Blenkinsopp hall, Haltwhistle,chairmn Chairman of the Board of Guardians, J ames Gregg, Askew Thomas Hordon, Whitley Bay Thirlwall villas, Gilsland Blackett-Ord John Reginald, Whitfield hall, Whitfield Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment CBardon Mill, Dryden, Council offices, Haltwhistle Carlisle Treasurer, John McClare Clark J.P. London Joint Stock Clark John McClare, Bellister castle, Haltwhistle Bank Limited, Haltwhistle Forster William Ridley, Oakey Knowe, Haltwhistle Medical Officers & Puhlie Vaccinat,or•, Ea~tern district. Hnpe-Wallaee James, Featberstone eastle, Haltwhistle George J. Williams M.D., B.S. West Bridge house. Lowes John Burkill, Alien's green, Bardon Mill, Carlisle Haltwhistle; Southern district, Stewart Carson M.B., Maughan John, Kirkhaugh, Carlisle C.M. Salvin lodge, Alston; We~tern district, Gordon Smith Frank Paul, Greystone dale, Haltwhistle Stonehouse L.R.C.P. & S.Edin. Haltwhistle: Whitfield Webster Ernest A. Unthank hall, Haltwhistle district, James Murray L.R.C.P. & L.R.C.S.Edin. Whitfield Thomas, Byers hall, Larnbley, Carlisle Allendale Town Collector to the Guardians & Relievi••!! & VaccinatioD The chairman, for the time being, of the Haltwhistle Officer for t-he Union, Frank Smith, Haltwhilltle Rural District Council is an ex-officio magistrate Workhouse, a building of stone, bmlt in 1837-9. to hold Clerk to the Magistrates, Edward Blackbnrn 6o inmates; James J. Kerr, master; G£'0rge J. Petty Sessions are held at the Magistrates' office on the Williams M.D., B.S. medical officer; Mrs. Elizabeth last thursday in each month, at I2 noon. The follow­ ing places are included in the petty sessional division : Kerr, matron Bellister, Blenldnsopp, Coanwood, Fe a therstone, Halt­ HALTWHISTLE REGISTRATION DISTRICT. whistle, Hartley Burn, Henshaw, Kirkhaugh, Knares­ dale, Lambley, Melkridge, Plenmeller, Ridley, Thirl­ Superintendent Registrar, Thomas Dryden, Union offices. " all, Thorngrafton, Wall Town, Whitfield Haltwhistle; deputy, John Dryden,Main st.Haltwhistle Registrar of Births, De,ths & Marriages, Haltwhistle dis­ HALTWHISTLE RuRAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. trict, Frank Smith, Haltwhi!'tle; deputy, William Jas. Graham, 2I Lorne street, Haltwhistle The tow11ships in the District are the same as in the Union. PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS. Council meetings nt the Council offices, thursda.y, fort­ nightly, at I p. m. Cemetery, John William Pattinson, clerk to Haltwhistle­ Highway Committee meetings monthly, at r p.m. & DU.trict Joint Burial Committee Chairman, James Gregg, Thirlwall villas, Gilsland Church Hall, Main street NORTHUMH. 10