Northumberland

Lumley Robert & Co. brewers, aerated Bull Mrs. Wylam lodge Foulis Robert James L.R.c.F.Edin. sur. mineral water manufrs. & farmers Clayton Richard J.P, Wylam hall geon, & medical officer, No. 7 East. McCoullGeo. In. L.R.C.p.Edin. surgeon, Cook George, Stanley vale district, & public "accinatof, No. Jl & medical officer, No. 7 West district, Cookson Norman Chas. Oakwood house district, Hexham union & public vaccinator, No. 10 district, Dunn Archibald, CastlE'l Hill hall Greener George, shopkeeper Hexham union, OVington house Dunn Mrs. Iveagh cottage Henderson Robert, blacksmith l\IcCoull Wm. L.R.C.P. Edin. surgeon Foulis Robert James Hunter James, farmer, Wylam wood &: Reed Robert, farmer, Crook hill Gibson James, Elmfield bank Wylam hill Robson 8eth, farmer, Ovington hall Lloyd Rev. WiIliam Stowe B.A Irving J ames, gardener to Lt. -Col. M. 'Telford J ohn, be~r retailer Ludke Richard, High croft C. Woods D.L. Holeyn Mughan Matthew, Prizedale villa Lamb George, grocer Spital. Murray James, Stanley Burn ha Leathard Thomas, butcher Green Harrison, farmer, 8pital farm Ridley Musgrave, Wylam cottage MOl'due William, market gardener Stowell William, Southbank MilIburn Edward, miller (steam) Welton. Woods Lieut.-Col.Matthew Charles D.L. Newcastle & Gateshead Water Co. Byel'ley Thomas, farmer, Welton hall Boleyn hall (James Telford, manager) Charlton John, farmer Phillips John, Bird inn Newcastle & Gateshead Water Co. (John COMMERCIAL. Reay Henry, Ship inn Bell, manager) Brown Philip M.D. surgeon, & medical Robson Edward, Black Bun P.B officer & public vaccinator, Winlaton Smith Joseph, boot maker Whittle. district, Gateshead union, medical Watson Elizabeth (Miss), ladies'schoot Hall & Bros. farmers, Whittle farm officer of health, Blaydon & Ryton Waugh Edward, toll collector, WyJam Rutter Daniel miller (water) urban districts & certif) ing factory briuge surgeon, Elmfield Wylam Reading Institute (Richard Wylam. Brookhouse Ralph, Fox & Hounds inn Taylor, sec.) Brown John Downing, Elmfield Rurn Johnson, Boat House mn Yeats Thomas, estate agent to Captam. Brown Philip M.D. Elmfield Davison Elizh. (lHrs.),draper,Post office Hlackett

PONTELAND, or ELAND, is a township, parish and erectecl in 1731, was rebuilt in 183t & 1873 & enlarged village, on the road from Newcastle to Jedburgh, and on in 1889 ; average attendance, 130 ; Thomas Nield, master; the river Pont, from which itderives its name, 7 miles north Miss Gro\'es, mistress west from Newcastle, in the 'Tyneside division of the county, BERWICK HILL township, 2 miles north, is the property of the west division of Castle Ward, Castle West petty sessional the Rev. John Stapleton, who is lord of the manor. The division, Castle Ward union, Newcastle county district, rural area is 1,658 acres; rateable value, £1,258; the population deanery of Corbridge, archdeaconry of Northumberland and in 1891 was 87. diocese of Newcastle. The church of St. Mary is an ancient building of stone in the Norman and Early English styles, LETTERS are delivered from Ponteland post office on monJay, dating from the 12th century and consisting of chancel, nave wednesdays, & fridays only of four bays, aisles, transepts, south porch and a western COLDCOATS is a township, about 2 miles north, and con towel' containing a clock and 2 bells: about 1244 a meet sists of fonr farms. East Coldcoats is the property of Newton ing is said to have been held in the church of the representa Charles O~le esq. J.p. Middle ani "\'e3t Coldcoatsbelongt~ tives of the English and Scottish forces, when, by the the daughters of the late Mrs. Elliott-llates, and Coldcoats intervention of WaIter Gray, Archbishop of York, a peace Moor to the trustees of the late Edward Collingwood esq. J.P: was concluded: the church is believed to have been partially of Dissington. The gre..'\t tithes belong to Merton College; destroyed by fire in the year 1388, when Lord Douglas and Oxford, and the small tithes to the vicar. The area is 1,073 his army, on their return from Newcastle, destroyed acres; rateable value, £651 ; the population in 18g1 was34. Ponteland and its castle, and it narrowly escaped a second DARRAS H.\LL town'lhip is 2 miles south. The trustees of destruction by fire in 1841: the west doorway is a fine the late Edward Collingwood esq. are lords of the manor example of Late Norman, much enriched with zigzag mould and principal landowners. 'The area is 423 acres; rateable ings' and both the transepts are very fine specimens of the value, £316; the population in 189J was 9. Early English style: in the south transept is a memorial window, erected by the late Miss Bates, of Milbourne Hall : HIGH CALLERTON township, 2 miles sonth, is the property over the south porch is a sun-dial, dated 1686; the carved of Robert Maddison Warwick esq. J. P. who resides at Caller oak choir stalls &c. were presented by Merton College: in ton Hall, and is lord of the manor. A small portion is in the chancel, restored in 1861, is an elegant piscina, and a the parish of Newburn. The area is 1,024 acres; rateable large floor slab incised with the figure of a mitred ecclesiastic: value, £1,176; the population in 1891 was Ill. there are mural monuments to the Ogles of Kirkley : there HWHAM DYKES township is 3 miles north-west, on the are 300 sittings. 'The registers date from the year 1602, road to Jedburgh; the township is the property of Signora and are in Latin up to A.D. 1693; they also contain a list of Florence Cacciola Trevelyan, wife of Professor Salvatora vicars, with dates of succession, from the year Igoo up to Cacciola 111.0. "Who is lady of the manor. This township the present time. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value ma.y perhaps take its name from some ancient earthworks ttt £301, and £II7 for a curate, with about 150 acres of glebe, the east of Eland Hall; in the wall of a cottage here is and residence, in the gift of Merton College, Oxford and embedded a rudely carved semi-nude female figure dug ul' held since J889 by the Rev. William Moore Richardson M.A. near the spot. The area is 223 acres; rateable value, £296 ; of Merton College, Oxford. There is a Wesleyan Methodist the population in 1891 was 15. chapel, built in 1841. The workhouse of Castle Ward Union, School (mixed), erected in 1852, by the late Miss Bell, for 60 comprising 77 townships, is in this parish. 'The old Manor children; average attendance, 30; Mrs. Eleanor Taylor, House of the Erringtons, now the " Black Bird" hotel, re mistress tains the initials" M.E." both inside and. on the outer walls; KIRKLEY township, g miles north-north-west, is the pro a vaulted chamber attached to this building formed part perty of Newton Charles Ogle esq. J.P. who owns all the of the ancient Castle of Ponteland: other portions of the land, with the exception of one farm. Kirkley the castle remain in good condition, and there are underground Hall is residence of Arthur }<'enwick esq. J.P. The area is 1,8sz passages said to be connected with the church. The trustees acres; rateable value, £1,949; the population in 1891 was of Edward Collingwood esq. Charles LOraine Bell esq. ;f.P. of Woolsington,Archibald Dunn esq. Hobert Maddison Warwick 141• esq. J.P. of Callerton Hall, and William Archbold esq. are School, erected in 1861, for 30 children; average attendance, the chief landowners. The soil is loamy; subsoil, strong go; entirely supported by Newton Charles Ogle esq.; clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area Miss Alice Bell, mistress of the township is 1,889 acres; rateable value, '£3,412; the BENRIDGE HALL, the property of Newton Charles Ogle population in 1891 was 405, including 51 officers and inmates esq. and in the occupation of Miss Blagburn, is a large sllJlle i.1 Castle Ward union. mansion, standing in ornamental grounds, and was rebuilt Sexton, John Todd. in 1873. POST, M. O. & 'T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, BENRIDGE and CARTER MOOR are hamlets. Ponteland.-Miss Margaret Jameson, sub-postmistress. POST OFFICE, Higham Dykes.-Mrs. Isabella Boiston, post- Letters through Newcastle arrivQ at a.m. ; dispatched at mistress. Letters arrive from Newcastle at 8.45 a.m. & 8,30 p.m. Telegraph office open frolD 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. dispatched at 8.5 p.m. There is no sunday delivery. on weekdays; sundays 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. on which days Ponteland is the nearest money order & telegraph offict letters can be had by calling-there is no sunday delivery, LITTLE CALLERTON township is 1 mile west. It is the but a collection at 8.30 p.m property of the trustees of the late Edward Collingwood esq. Coates's Endowed School (mixed), with an income originally J.p. of Dissington. The area is 589 acres; rateable value, Of Iso yearly, but now increased in value; the school, £274 j the population in 1891 was 7.