Whitley Chapel is a village in Northumberland

Northumberland

Northumberland is the northernmost ceremonial county and a unitary district in North East England. For Eurostat purposes Northumberland is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "Northumberland and Tyne and Wear" NUTS 2 region...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 about 4 miles (6 km) south of Hexham

Hexham

Hexham is a market town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, located south of the River Tyne, and was the administrative centre for the Tynedale district from 1974 to 2009. The three major towns in Tynedale were Hexham, Prudhoe and Haltwhistle, although in terms of population, Prudhoe was...

, and in the parish of Whitley.

Governance

Whitley Chapel is in the parliamentary constituency of Hexham

Hexham (UK Parliament constituency)

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Landmarks

In Whitley Chapel Village Hall is a plaque commemorating those fallen soldiers from Hexhamshire

Hexhamshire

Hexhamshire was a county of northern England. It existed for several hundred years until it was incorporated into Northumberland in 1572.-County:...

 killed in battle during the two world wars. Local historian and publisher Hilary Kristensen was behind the idea and the plaque is the fruit of nearly three years’ work. The plaque was unveiled in 2009 by Hilary Kristensen, Mike Linklater and parish council chairman Brian Massey.

The names recorded on the plaque are:

The Great War World War I World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
John Atkinson	William Dagg	Robert Leathard
Surtees Atkinson	Joseph Davison	Dent Oliver
James I. Bowman	John Henderson	James H. Robson
Thomas Brown	George Holden	Joseph W. Simpson
Cecil P. Clark	William Kennedy	Harry J. Spencer
World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
Fred Armstrong	Leonard Atkinson	Eric Robson
John S. Atkinson	Robert N. Atkinson	Vincent J. Swallow
Walter R. Dawson

External links

• Northumberland Communities (Accessed: 3 December 2008)