Henshaw, Northumberland

Description
Henshaw, a township in Haltwhistle parish, Northumberland, on the South Tyne river, and on the Newcastle and Carlisle railway, about 1 mile from Bardon Mill railway station, and 3 1/2 miles E of Haltwhistle. Post and money order office, Bardon Mill; telegraph office, Haltwhistle. Acreage, 13, 181, of which 100 are water; population, 486. It now forms part of the ecclesiastical parish of Bellingham, with Henshaw, which was constituted in 1890. Population, 918. The manor belongs to the Blackett family of Matfen HalL The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Newcastle-on-Tyne; gross value, £139 with residence. The church, erected in 1888-89, is a plain building in the Early English style. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels; the latter was enlarged in 1885.