Description
Rothley, a village and a township in Hartburn parish, Northumberland, on the river Font, 1 mile from Scots Gap station, on the North British railway, and 11 miles WNW of Morpeth. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Cambo. Acreage, 2822; population, 98. Rothley Crags, a fine range of millstone grit rocks, are surmounted, at an elevation of 843 feet above sea-level, with a picturesque tower built in the 18th century by Sir W. Blackett. A hill to the N also is surmounted by an imitation ruin of a fort, and overhangs a lake. A quondam ancient tower at Bothley belonged to the abbot of Newminster.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
