44 ALLIOIHE.ADS. NORTHlJl\IBEHLAND. [ KELL\''~
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ALNHAM is a township and parish, near the source of fortified n~maim, and in s field opposite, during som& -the river Aln, b2: miles west from Whittingham station axcavations in I 85o, a portion of an ancient 1oad, e~ -on the .Alnwick and Cornhill branch of the North Eastern Eeet wide, was discovered, nearly two feet below tho -railway, 9 north-west from Rothbury terminal station surface. .About half a mile north is a very parfect camp. of the North British railway, ~4 west from A]nwick and In the village are five cottages, held under the Duke of 12 suuth from Wuoler, in t,lle Berwick-on-Tweed div~siun Northumberland, with small allotments of land, varying -of the county, Coquetdale Ward (north), petty ses- from 6 to I2 acres, let at from I5S. to 2os. per acre; as -sional division, Rothbury union and county court dis- the rents are stationary, and tha land is let in succession -trict, and in the rural deanery of Ruth bury, archdeacunrJ from futhcr to son, tho occupants are rendered com- -<•f Lindisfarne and diocese of Newcastle. The church uf paratively indeptmdent. The Duke of Nmthumberland St. Michael, built about the year II35· and chiefly in K.G., P.C. is lord of the manor and the principal land ! he Transitional style, consists of chancal, nave, tran- owner. The soil is loam; subsoil, gravel. The chief ~epts, south porch and a western turret containing one crops are oats, barley and turnips. The area of the fbell: on the chancel floor are a number of medi::Eval township is 10, 341 acres of land and 4 of water; rate· grave slabs, ornamented with crossas and swords, and able value, £ 2 , 211 ; the population in rgrr was I06 in :d.t th.~ "est t>nd is an inscription to George .Adder, of the township and 1 g in the ecclesiastical parish. Prendick, drowned at Hempseid fo,rd, on the Tweed, 7 near Kelso, IS February, r6Ir. The church once had PRENDWICK is a township r mile north fro_m Aln a north aisle, the arcade of which is now built up into ham, the propmty . of Lt.-Col. R.. H. Carr-Elhson, of ·the wall, which also incorporates a numbar of ancient Hedgley Hall, AlnwlCk. The ~rea _Is 1,415 acres; rate· grave slabs; on the south side of the chancel is a recess 1 able value, £8I6; the populatiOn m I9II was 35·
nnder a depre~~ed arch, .and _on the w~st_ side of. the SCR.AINWOOD or Screnwood township, 1 mile south t.ransept arch ~s a slab mscnbed to W1lham Colh_ng- from Alnham, is the property of the trustees of the ~oo~, of Prend1ck, d. r8 September, 1763, and Perc1val laLe Walier Charles Selby esq. of Biddlestone Hall (d. "'Uollmgwo_od, d. 3 r December, 1769 : the octagonal stone 1900). The area is r,o6r acres ; rateable value, .£s 49 ; font, datmg from r664, has a mullet and a cre~cent the population in rgii was 34. carved upon it: the church wa~ repaired in 1870, and . . . . the roof restored in 1 sg7 by the late Duke of N orthum- UNTHANK townsh1p IS r m1le west from. Alnham, the •berland: there are uo sittings. Tha register dates property of Lord Ravensworth. T~e ~rea 1s 177 acres; from the yaar r688. The living is a vicarage, net rateable value, £r63; the populatwn m rgri was q. yearly value £zoo, including 7 acres of glt>be, with Sexton, GPorge Ross. residence, in the gift of the Duke of Northumbarland Pillar Letter Box cleared at 3·45 p.m. Letters arrive 'K.G .• P.O. and held since 1892 by the Rev. William from Whitting-ham, Northumb. at 12.30 pm. Whit· Nall M . .A. of Durham University. The old vicarage, built tingham is the nearest money order, telegraph & tele· in the reign of Edward Ill. fell into ruins in 1643, but phonic express delivery office -was restored by George, sth Duke of Northumberland, in Public Elementary School (Church of England) (mixed), 1844: the upper storey of the old fabric, generally called built, with master's house, in r87o, for 6o children; the "Peel Tower,'' is embattled, and has cor belied out average attendance, 27; William Davisun, master; turrets at the angles. Near to the vicarage a.re other Rev. \V. Nall M.A. The Vicarage, correspondent
PRTVATE RF.SIDF.NTS. COMMERCIAL. Scott .Adam, farmer Nail Rev. William M ..A. Vicarage Chrisp Francis Octavius, farmBr. Snaith John, farmer, Scrainwoorl 'Chrisp Francis Octavius J. P. Prend Prendwick Storey Ralph Storey, farmer, Hazel- wick Cnrry John & Wm. farmers, Unthunk ton rigg ·Scott .Adam Gowenlock James, farmer Tully Martha (Mrs_), shopkeeper
ALNMOUTH is a village on the coast of the North residence, in the gift of the Duke of Northumberland Sea, at the mouth of the .Aln, a township and parish, K. G. and held since 1909 by the Rev. Frederiek William -formed Fabruary 20, I877• from the parish of Leslmry, 4~ Linton Bogle, of UniveTsity College, London. The ancient miles south-east from .Alnwick and I east from .Aln- church, which stood on an eminence on the north ·mouth junction station on the North Eastern railway, bank of the .Aln, surrounded on three sides by >~"ater -in the Berwi"k-upon-Tweed division of the county, eastern and connected· with the town by the Chcsil isthmus division of Coqnatdale ward, .Alnwick petty ses~ional (A. S. coesel, sand), was a cruciform building of g-reat -division, union -and county court district, and in the antiquity, but had fallen into decay in t6Io, though rural deanery of .Alnwick, archdeaconry of Lindisfarne the churchyard was still used for burials : in 1775 a -and diocese of Newcastle. The river Aln is here crossed great part of the structure wa& still standing, but the by a bridge of four arches, erected in I864, when the encroachments of the sea have gradually carried it 'foot road to .Alnmouth station was improved; the total away, and now nothin!; but a portion of the churchnrd cost, about £2,00-:J, was mainly contributed by Eleanor is left; in 1789 a Saxon cross was found on the church (GrosvPnor), wife of AJgernon, 4th Duke of Northumber- hill, with a rude carving of the" Crnc;fi"'{ion," the ra.me -land. In the summer season the village is much resorted I ".Adn!fes" and tbe words "Mffi:REDEH MEH to for bath;ng; the sands are beautifully firm, and im- WO(RHTE)" (M~redeth mv work): in 184T thPT'e were mediately adjacent are the Links, a fine expanse of level still a nurn ber of grave stones and led[!'ers remaining in ~ward. The village is supnlied with wat~r by the .Aln- the chnrchyard. The Wesleyan chapE'l was hnilt in "Wick Rural District Council, from springs at Snableazt>s, 18gr. The Town Hall will seat 300 people. There is the water being conveyed hither by gravitation, and i~ a Re;1ding room and library of 300 volumes. HPre i..~ lighted with gas by the .Alnmouth Gas and Salt Water a co~tguard station with rocket apparatus, the property Baths Co. formed in I86o. Watch hill, north of the of the Board of Trade, and a staff of two boatmen. town, affords an extensive prospect, including Church A lifeboat of the N~tion~l Lifeboat Institntinn was 1 'hill, Coquet island, Alnwick church and column, Amble i stationed here in I8~2. and a small bnat with boat with its shipping, Warkw01th castle and church, Swans· · house was given by the late .John William Pease esq. field and Heckley homes, Boulmer, Long Houghton and (1. rqor) ann the late M~jor A. Browne for the use Huwick, and tu the east the North Sea. The ba litis of of b.,ther'i The Schooner Hotel stand~ close to the sea. this pl~ce, in the TO Edw. Ill. (1336-7), were summoned On the common are very perfect remains of a camp. to a council at Norwich, before the Bishop of Lincorn. In the Saxon period the manor belong-ed to the fomily rhe church of St. John the Baptist, built by subscript:on of Ty11on. and hy rrarriage rlescPnd~ tn th~t of rle VP~ci. in 1876, at a cost of £2,595, on a site given by the Duke 'lnd next to the Percies. The Duke of ~nrthnTT'herland -fJf Northumberland, is an edifice of stone, congigting of K.G., P.C. is lnrrl of the manor and chirf l~nnowner. -chancel, nave, north aisle, north and south porches and The areR of the township is 327 IH'rP~ of land_ I~ or an emb