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Kyloe is an elongated parish in North Northumberland which includes a number of villages and settlements: Fenwick Village, Beal, Berrington, Buckton, East & West Kyloe, Low Lynn, Kentstone, and Fenham, amongst others. For more detail on its coverage, see the map of Kyloe parish on the Northumberland Association of Local Councils website.

1973, Women’s Institute Children’s Party. © Berwick Record Office. BRO 2103-1973-9537.

During 2024-2025 a project was undertaken, “Life in Kyloe Parish – Past and Present”,  with the aim of bringing the community together and helping it appreciate its past, and also of recording elements of its present that future generations might want to know.  Specific objectives were:

• to document the history and life of Kyloe Parish in the past through oral history recordings and the collection of other archive material
• to involve people in the community in finding out about their past
• to preserve the oral histories and material collected in the Berwick Record Office

The work was carried out by residents of the parish, supported by the staff of Berwick Record Office.  The results from the project included:

• A set of digitised images about the area from the past, together with some modern photographs (buildings and people) to create a contemporary archive. These have been ingested into Preservica (digital content system) to ensure their permanent preservation in the Record Office.

September 1969, Beal Leek/Flower Show. © Berwick Record Office. BRO 1944-1-5368-039

• A series of oral history recordings about life in the area in the past 100 years. These are deposited in the Record Office.

The Kyloe Project media page displays examples from the digitised photo collection.  It also has a summary of the oral history recordings.

Other resources for the history of Kyloe which can be found in Berwick Record Office are:

• Census records for Kyloe, 1841-1921  (see sample Census for Kyloe parish 1891 [PDF])
• Parish registers, up to c.1900
• Monumental inscriptions from Kyloe (transcriptions from gravestones etc.)
• Lowick Scotch Church baptism registers, 1804-1848.

Click the image to see further examples from the photograph collection.

Banner image: St Nicholas in Kyloe: a former parish church, now converted into a private home.  Photo © Chris Morgan (cc-by-sa/2.0)