In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Leemailing like this:
LEEMAILING, a township in Bellingham parish, Northumberland, on the North Tyne river, 1 mile NW of Bellingham. Pop., 234. Houses, 48. Hesleyside here is the seat. of the Charltons, and has a neat domestic chapel. Stone is largely quarried.
The location is that of Hesleyside, as Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England (1831), in its entry for Leemailing, describes Hesleyside as withing the township. The location also corresponds broadly to the location given by the Bartholomew and Imperial gazetteers, i.e. a mile NW of Bellingham.
Leemailing through time
Leemailing is now part of Tynedale district. Click here for graphs and data of how Tynedale has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Leemailing itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Leemailing, in Tynedale and Northumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22525
Date accessed: 12th May 2024
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