Birtley is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England southeast of Bellingham. It is about 10 miles (16 km) north of Hexham.
Religious sites The Church of St Giles in Birtley features an inscribed stone on the north wall of the chancel with a cross and letters ORPE, dated to about 700AD, the cross bars at the end of the arms resembling the Lindisfarne Gospels. It is a Grade II* listed building. The north wall of the chancel and nave masonry is 12th century and it was restored in 1884. One side of the church is without windows.
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