FALSTONE, a parish in the north-western division
of TINDALE ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND, 8 miles
(W.N.W.) from Bellingham, comprising the townships
of Falstone, Plashets, andWellhaugh quarter, and containing
501 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy,
in the archdeaconry of Northumberland, and diocese of
Durham, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and
£400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Governors
of Greenwich Hospital. The church,  which was
rebuilt in 1825, has received an addition of one hundred
and five free sittings, the Incorporated Society for the
enlargement of churches and chapels having granted
£ J. 00 towards defraying the expense. Falstone is one of
the six parishes into which the late extensive parish
of Simonburn was divided by act of parliament, in 1811j
it is a large and mountainous district, abounding with
coal, and affording also good pasturage for sheep. The
North Tvne has its source in a morass here, and re-
ceives the Kilder and numerous rivulets as it .runs
through the parish. The river Liddle, or Liddel, issues
also from the same morass, and pursues its course into
Scotland. There are several mineral springs in the
neighbourhood, one of which, near the head of the
Tyne, is said to be equally powerful and efficacious,
with those at Gilsland Spa. At a place called the Bells,
are the remains of an ancient religious building, contiguous
to which is a cemetery.