Humshaugh is five miles north of Hexham on the banks of the river North Tyne and not far from the B6318 [Military Road]. The Military Road is so named because it was built by order of General Wade shortly after the 1745 Jacobite rising to provide a direct and easy passage for troops between Newcastle and Carlisle.
The church, which is dedicated to St Peter, was built in 1818 and was designed by the famous Newcastle architect John Dobson. It was built in the gothic style and has a belfy with one bell. The railway came to Humshaugh in the 1830s with the building of the Newcastle to Carlisle railway.