In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Longhirst like this:
LONGHIRST, a township in Bothal parish, Northumberland; on the Northeastern railway, 2½ miles NE of Morpeth. It has a station on the railway. Acres, 1,703. Pop., 253. Houses, 55. Longhirst Hall and Longhirst Grange are chief residences. There are a national school and a reading-room.
Longhirst through time
Longhirst is now part of Castle Morpeth district. Click here for graphs and data of how Castle Morpeth has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Longhirst itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Longhirst, in Castle Morpeth and Northumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/9451
Date accessed: 13th May 2024
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