Interesting facts about Allendale

19th Century Allendale
"There are Books in almost every house. Attendance on public worship is the rule, not the exception; and profane language is scarcely ever heard. Here is one parish 7 miles long without a public house and without a pauper to put in the workhouse."
Forster's Report to the Newcastle Commission 1861

Smallpox
There were smallpox epidemics in Allendale in 1710, 1711 and 1715.

St Mark's Church, Ninebanks
Consecrated by the Archbishop of York in July 1764, in the presence of Sir William Blackett, the register of St Mark's dates from 1764.
Allendale Parish Registers commenced in 1662. There are registers to 1685 in the first book. The second book begins in 1690. There are five years missing.