Kirkheaton, Northumberland

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

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. ==History==

1999 Tornado crash 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 == Religious sites ==

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. ==References==