On 1 April 1955 the parish was abolished and merged with Capheaton.

The Devil's Causeway passes the village just over 1 mile (2 km) to the east.

The causeway is a Roman road which starts at Port Gate on Hadrian's Wall, north of Corbridge, and extends 55 miles (89 km) northwards across Northumberland to the mouth of the River Tweed at Berwick-upon-Tweed.

[3] The chapel was rebuilt in 1775, at the expense of Mrs H. D. Windsor, at that time lady of the manor.

[4] Media related to Kirkheaton, Northumberland at Wikimedia Commons