Hartley is a historic village in
Northumberland
Northumberland () is a county in Northern England, one of two counties in England which border with Scotland. Notable landmarks in the county include Alnwick Castle, Bamburgh Castle, Hadrian's Wall and Hexham Abbey.
It is bordered by land ...
, England. The village lies on the
A193 road south of
Blyth and 4 miles north of
Tynemouth. It was a farming and later colliery village but today is part of
Seaton Sluice
Seaton Sluice is a village in Northumberland. It lies on the coast at the mouth of the Seaton Burn (a small river), midway between Whitley Bay and Blyth. It has a population of about 3,000 people.
Early history
Seaton Sluice lies north o ...
. However it has given its name to the
ward
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Division or unit
* Hospital ward, a hospital division, floor, or room set aside for a particular class or group of patients, for example the psychiatric ward
* Prison ward, a division of a penal institution such as a pris ...
of Hartley which covers Seaton Sluice and
New Hartley
New Hartley is a small village in South East Northumberland, England, adjacent to Hartley, Northumberland, Hartley, Seaton Delaval and Seaton Sluice. The village is just off the A190 road about north of Tynemouth and south of Blyth, Northumbe ...
. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 4,923. Hartley is sometimes called Old Hartley to distinguish it from New Hartley.
The place-name 'Hartley' is first attested in the
Pipe Rolls for 1167, where it appears as ''Hertelawa''. The name means 'stag hill'.
[ Eilert Ekwall, ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names'', p.222.]
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Villages in Northumberland
Populated coastal places in Northumberland
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