Kirkheaton, Northumberland

Kirkheaton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Capheaton, in the county of Northumberland, England. The village lies about north east of Hexham and about west of Belsay. In 1951 the parish had a population of 70.

Governance

Kirkheaton is in the parliamentary constituency of Hexham. On 1 April 1955 the parish was abolished and merged with Capheaton.

Kirkheaton Manor is a bastle house in the village.
The Devil's Causeway passes the village just over to the east. The causeway is a Roman road which starts at Port Gate on Hadrian's Wall, north of Corbridge, and extends northwards across Northumberland to the mouth of the River Tweed at Berwick-upon-Tweed.

At Matfen on the morning of Thursday 14 October 1999, Tornado ZD809, of 15 Sqn, crashed killing the crew. Both pilots were 30, and from RAF Lossiemouth.

Flt Lt Richard Ashley Wright, of Harriat Hayes Road, Codsall Wood, Wolverhampton, he was married three children aged 5, 2 and 6 months; he had attended Wolverhampton Grammar School, and Liverpool University Air Squadron, and was training to be a weapons instructor on the Tornado ; his 62 year old father, Alan, was a former RAF navigator
Flt Lt Sean Patrick Casabayo, from Plymouth

The church is dedicated to St Bartholomew. The chapel was rebuilt in 1775, at the expense of Mrs H. D. Windsor, at that time lady of the manor.