Haltwhistle is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England, 10 miles (16 kilometres) eastern of Brampton, near Hadrian's Wall. It had a population of 3,811 at the 2011 Census. Stone-built residences are a feature of Haltwhistle. It is among two negotiations in Great Britain which assert to be the precise geographic centre of the island, together with Dunsop Bridge in Lancashire, 71 miles (114 km) to the south. A selecting ward with the very same name still exists. This ward stretches from Hexham southern up the R. South Tyne and also has a total population taken at the 2011 Census of 4,832. Haltwhistle was a market town for the exchange of neighborhood products. In the 18th century 2 Quakers set up a baize manufactury and also there was a weaving establishment. On the Haltwhistle Burn were fulling mills, coloring and also rotating mills. A walk along this stream to the Roman Wall, shows that it needs to 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, storekeepers and investors-- 60 in number, consisting of manufacturers of clogs. The weekly market was held on Thursdays as well as there were fairs on 14 May and 22 November for cattle as well as sheep.