SLALEY, a parish in the eastern division of TINDALE
ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND, 5 miles
(S. E. by S.) from Hexham, containing 582 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of
Northumberland, and diocese of Durham, endowed with
£200 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £ 1200
parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of T. W.
Beaumont, Esq. At Dukesfield, in this parish, is a
large mill for smelting and refining lead-ore, which is
brought from Wardle, in the county of Durham. Ochre
is obtained and manufactured on Slaley fell. A small
school is supported by the bequests of Matthew Carr, in
1729, and Ralph Carr, in 1769.