The place-name 'Hartley' is first attested in the Pipe Rolls for 1167, where it appears as Hertelawa. The name means 'stag hill'.2 Hartley was formerly a township in the parish of Earsdon,3 from 1866 Hartley was a civil parish in its own right, on 1 April 1912 the parish was abolished and merged with Seaton Delaval and Monkseaton.4 In 1911 the parish had a population of 1688.5
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