Mickley, Northumberland

Description
Mickley, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Ovingham parish, Northumberland. The township lies near a side station on the Newcastle and Carlisle railway, 9 1/4 miles E by S of Hexham, and 2 1/2 from Prudhoe station on the N.E.R., and contains the hamlets of Cherrybum and. Mount Pleasant and the village of Mickley Square, which has a post and money order office under Stocksfield; telegraph office, Prudhoe. Acreage, 1431; population of the township, 1450; of the ecclesiastical parish, 2085. Coal-mining and coking are largely carried on by the Mickley Coal Company. The ecclesiastical parish contains also six other townships. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Newcastle; net value, £209. The church was built in 1824, is in the Early English style, and consists of chancel, nave, transepts, and a belfry; it was restored and enlarged in 1886. There is a parish hall, and a workmen's club and reading-room, erected in 1894.