National Gazetteer (1868) - Whitfield

"WHITFIELD, a parish in the W. division of Tynedale ward, county Northumberland, 4 miles S.E. of Haltwhistle, 14 S.W. of Hexham, and 8 S.W. of Haydon Bridge railway station. It is watered by the East and West Allen rivers, which join their streams at Cupola, and is traversed by the new turnpike road from Alston to Haydon Bridge. Two-thirds of the surface are high, heathy, uninclosed moorland, only affording pasturage to sheep, but the lands along the Allen are fertile, and are appropriated chiefly to dairy and grazing farms. At Redmires is a chalybeate spring. There are traces of lead, which was formerly worked, also a small brick and tile kiln. The manor anciently belonged to the Whitfields, who held it under the collegiate church of Hexham, and were styled "earls" by custom; it is now the property of Mrs. Blackett Ord, of Whitfield Hall. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Durham, value £300. The church was rebuilt in 1784. The charities produce about £7 per annum. There are National schools."

"EMLY, a small hamlet in the parish of Whitfield in the county Northumberland, 6 miles S. of Hexham. It is situated in the vicinity of the Devil's Water."