Haltwhistle
Haltwhistle is a small town as well as civil church in Northumberland, England, 10 miles (16 kilometres) east of Brampton, near Hadrian's Wall. It had a population of 3,811 at the 2011 Census. Stone-built homes are an attribute of Haltwhistle. It is among 2 settlements in Great Britain which declare to be the exact geographic centre of the island, together with Dunsop Bridge in Lancashire, 71 miles (114 kilometres) to the south. An electoral ward with the same name still exists. This ward stretches from Hexham southern up the R. South Tyne and has a complete population taken at the 2011 Census of 4,832. Haltwhistle was a market community for the exchange of neighborhood products. In the 18th century 2 Quakers established a baize manufactury and there was a weaving facility. On the Haltwhistle Burn were fulling mills, dyeing and also rotating mills. A walk along this stream to the Roman Wall, shows that it should have been a hive of sector with quarries, coal mining as well as lime burning kilns. The Directory of 1822 (Pigot) offers an entire variety of craftsmen, shopkeepers as well as traders-- 60 in number, including manufacturers of obstructions. The once a week market was hung on Thursdays and there were fairs on 14 May as well as 22 November for livestock and also sheep.
