WHITFIELD, a parish in the western division of
TINDALE ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND, 11
miles (W. S. W.) from Hexham, containing 289 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Northumberland, and diocese of Durham,
rated in the king's books at £8, and in the patronage
of William Ord, Esq. The church was rebuilt about
1784. The East and West Allen rivers join their
streams at Cupola, in this parish, at which place leadore,
obtained from a mine at Limestone-Cross, was formerly
smelted. A new line of road from Alston to
Haydon bridge, has been recently formed through the
parish. At Redmires there is a chalybeate spring,
Mr. Ord allows a house and garden, with £20 a year,
to the master of a school, for teaching poor children.