Description
Plashetts, a township in Falstone parish, Northumberland, with a station on the Border Counties railway, adjacent to the North Tyne river, 13 1/2 miles NW of Bellingham. The township lies around the station and bears the name of Plashetts and Tynehead, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.) Acreage, 29,230; population, 340. There is a parish council consisting of five members. Most of the surface is moor and mountain, and coal is largely worked. There is a Free Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
