Description
Charlton, South, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish, taken out of the parishes of Ainwick and Ellingham, Northumberland, 4 miles SW of Christen Bank railway station, and 5 NNW of Ainwick, with a post office under Chathill (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Chathill. Acreage, 1885; population of the township, 121; of the ecclesiastical, 196. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Newcastle; net value, £180 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Northumberland. The church was built in 1862.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
