ALLENDALE, a parish in the southern division of TINDALE ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND, 9 miles (S. W. by W.) from Hexham, and 286 (N. N. W.) from London, comprising the market-town of Allendale, and the townships of West Allendale, Broadside, Cotton, Keenty, and Forest, and containing 4629 inhabitants. The tpwn is irregularly built on an acclivity gradually rising from the eastern bank of the river Allen, from which it derives its name, and is supplied with water from springs, which abound in the neighbourhood: a bridge was erected over this river in 1825, and in the same year a subscription library was established. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in the lead mines, which are very extensive, producing upwards of two thousand five'.hundred tons annually: thrre are several walks for grinding and washing the ore, and some smelting- houses, in one of which, twenty-one tons pass through the furnace weekly, from which a considerable quantity of silver is separated. An act for making a new line of road through this parish, from Wardle, in the county of Durham, to Alston- Moor, in Cumberland, was obtained in 1826. The market is on Friday; and the fairs are held on the last Friday in April, the 22nd of August, and the first Friday after the 29th of October, for horses, cattle, and sheep in the market-place are the ruins of a cross. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Archbishop of York, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Col. and Mrs. Beaumont. The church is a neat edifice of stone, rebuilt in 1807. Within the parish also are four chapels of ease, viz., St. Peter's, rebuilt in 1825; the chapel at Nine-Banks, partially rebuilt about 1816; the chapel at the Carr Shield, built in 1822 5 and that of Allenheads, rebuilt in 1826. There are places of worship for the Society of Friends and Wesleyan Methodists. A free grammar school was founded and endowed, in 1693, by Mr. Christopher Wilkinson and others; the master's salary is about £60 per annum. There are also various other schools connected with the different places of worship in the parish. At a place called Old Town, about three miles to the north-west, are vestiges of an ancient intrenchment, of a square form, supposed to be Roman.