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The formation of the Northumberland County History Committee and
its object have been so fully explained in the prefaces to preceding volumes
that it is only necessary to state here why the parishes dealt with in the
following pages were selected for treatment, and to discharge the grateful
duty of recording the names of those without whose help it would have been
impossible to accomplish what has been done.
The preceding volume, edited by Mr. A. B. Hinds, in addition to an
account of the origin and general history of the regality, contained a
detailed history of the priory, the church, and the town of Hexham. The
present volume relates the history of the rural townships of Hexham and of
the chapelries which are component parts of Hexhamshire. Their position
in relation to one another and to the town of Hexham will be best understood
by a reference to the accompanying map. To this wide district has been
added the parish of Chollerton, whose rectory was one of the most valuable
possessions of the prior and convent ; the chapelry of Kirkheaton, another
possession of the convent; and the parish of Thockrington, whose ecclesiastical status as a prebend in the ...
A History of Northumberland. Issued Under the Direction of the Northumberland County History Committee, Hexhamshire: Part II
