THORNEYBURN, a parish in the north-western
division of TINDALE ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND,
comprising the townships of West Tarset and
Thorneyburn, and containing 358 inhabitants, of which
number, 189 are in the township of Thorneyburn, 5
miles (N. "W. by W.) from Bellingham. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northumberland, and
diocese of Durham, rated in the king's books at £4. 5.,
and in the patronage of the Governors of Greenwich
Hospital, who, in 1818, at the expense of £4000, erected
the church, which is a neat structure, situated in a field
formerly called Draper Croft. This is one of the five
new parishes anciently forming part of the extensive
parish of Simonburn: it is a wild and mountainous
district, extending from the North Tyne river to Reedsdale,
and is bounded on the east by the Tarset bourn.
Coal is obtained within the parish.