Falstone is a small village in Northumberland, England, just east of Kielder Water. The village is 8 miles (13 km) from the Anglo–Scottish border. Much of the village is clustered around its two churches, St. Peter's Anglican and the United Reformed Church.[2]
Falstone holds a popular annual agricultural show.
Etymology
The name Falstone is first attested in 1255, as Faleston. This derives from the Old English words fealu 'yellow, grey, mottled' and stān 'stone; thus it originally meant something like 'speckled stone'.[3][4]
The district of Falstone also once contained a place called Powtreuet, first attested in 1325 as Poltrerneth, whose name comes from the Brittonic language.[5]
Governance
Falstone is in the parliamentary constituency of Hexham. Falstone has its own Parish council.
Falstone parish was created in 1811 when the ancient parish of Simonburn was divided by Act of Parliament.
^"Northumberland Communities". communities.northumberland.gov.uk. Northumberland County Council. 2003. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
^Rowland, T. H. (1994). Waters of Tyne (Reprint ed.). Warkworth, Northumberland, England: Sandhill Press Ltd. ISBN0-946098-36-0.
^The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society, ed. by Victor Watts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), ISBN9780521362091 Parameter error in {{ISBN}}: checksum, s.v. FALSTONE.
