In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Fallowfield like this:
FALLOWFIELD, a township in St. John Lee parish, Northumberland; near the Roman wall, 3¼ miles N of Hexham. Pop., 43. Houses, 10. A rich vein of lead ore is here. Fallowfield fell commands a fine view; was quarried for the Roman wall; and has a Roman inscription on a grey stone, called the Written Rock.
Fallowfield through time
Fallowfield is now part of Tynedale district. Click here for graphs and data of how Tynedale has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Fallowfield itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Fallowfield, in Tynedale and Northumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/9132
Date accessed: 25th April 2024
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