7 452 OVINGH.AM. NORTH U1\J BE HLAND. [ KELLV 8 living is a vicarage, net yearly value £140, with resi­ and consists of a keep 20 fept square, and two outer dence, in the gift of Hubert Bigge esq. and held baileys, of no great size; the ruins are now surroundeBywell Hall, is lord of the manor and sole landowner of of .Austin Canons, founded by one of the Umphravilles the township. The acreage is 8I4; rateable value~ of Prudhoe, as a cell to the priory of Hexham; at its £&63; the population in I9II was 47· dissolution there wera three canons, and revenues Letters through Ovingham, Northmnb_ 2 miles distant, valued at £n: the existing building still shows anive at 8.30 a.m_ Ovingham is the nearest money­ some remains of early date, including a Decorated order & telegraph office window of two trefoiled lights : the kitehen retains a noble fireplace, and in one of the upper rooms is a rich OVLNGTON is a township and village on the north moulded cornice with "I. M." and over the south door bank of the river Tyne, I mile north-west from Prudhoe is the date 1692 and the letters "I. .A_" for one of the railway station and 8! east from Hexham, in He:xham Addison family. Near the steps leading from the rectory umon and Hexham and Bellingham county court dis­ garden to the river, ar~ inscribed stones, marking the brict_ The chief landowners are the trustees of the lat., height of the floods, 17 November, 1771, and 31 Decem­ Hrnry Hind. The area is ggB acres of land and 25 of ber, 18 r5. .A cemetery of two acres was formed in I 879, water; rateable value, [z,6r4; population in 19II, 504. at a cost of £r,soo: it has two mortuary chapels, and Post Ofl'tce_-Mn_ Hannah Sllarpe, sub-postmistress. is under the control of a burial board of 9 members. Letters through Q,-ingham, Northumb. arrive at 9 There are charities of the annual value of £n for dis­ a.m. & 7.25 p.m.; dispatched 9.30 a.m. & 7.30 p.m_ tribution in money. In the village is a modern ~ross, week days only. Ovingham, 2 miles distant, is the marking the site of the old toll-booth; the head is a neare~t telegraph & money order office copy of that of a former cross. Ovingham is now the Church of England School (mixed), built in r843 &. bead quarters of the Tynedale Benefit Nursing Associa­ enlarged in r85o & in IBBo, for rso children; average tion- The Duke of Northumberland K.G., P.C_ who is attendance, 103; Robert B. Vickers, master; J . .M. lord of the manor, Hubert Bigge esq. Messrs. William Gatheral, correspondent Bedlington and Charles Henry Scott are the chief land­ owners. The soil is sandy; subsoil, gravel. The chief RUDCHESTER township, formerly in this parish, was crops are wheat, barley, beans, with some land in in I892 transferred to Heddon. pasture_ The area of the township, which is in Hexham union, is 524 acres of land and 30 of water; rateable SPITAL or SPITTLE is a township on a small stream value, £2,372; the population in I9II was 399 in the which runs into the river Tyne, 2~ miles north-west from township, and r,n6 in the ecclesiastical parish. Prudhoe railway station and n north-east from Hexham. and in Hexham union and Hexham and Bellingbam Parish Clerk, Benjamin Wright. county court district. The Dul;e of Northumberland Post, .M. 0., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office K. G., P.C. is lord of the manor. Messrs. Green (lett-ers should have Northumberland added).- Jere­ Brothers are owners of the v.-hole township. The acre­ miah Thompson, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive at ag~ is 3S; rateable value, [699; the population in rgii 6.44 a.m. & 2.50 & 5.30 p.m.; dispatched ro a.m. & was 5· I, 6.rS & 8.r8 p-m Letters from Wylam, Northumb. which is the nearesi Church of England Schools (mixed), for roo children; money order & telegraph office average attendance, Bo; John Walker Rhodes, master; W. A. Hoyle, The Croft, correspondent WELTON is a township, near the Roman wall, on its south side, 3 miles north-west from Prudhoe railway Police Station, James Gray, constable in charge station and IO~ north-east from Hexham, in Hexham union. The Whittle Dene waterworks, from which New­ H"\RLOW HILL township stands on an eminence on castle-on-Tyne is supplied with water, are partly in thi~ the line of the great military road, and near the site of township and partly in the township of Tarlow Hill, and tile Roman w8ll, 3! miles north from Prudhoe station, there are a number of reservoirs covering together up­ on the Newcastle and Carlisle seCtion of the North Eastern ward~ of 200 acres. Weltun Tower, the ancient seat of railway, 3 north from Ovingham and 10 west from Ne.w­ the Welton family, standing on rising ground and dating castle-on-Tyne, and is in the Ca.stle Ward union and from I 6 r 6, is fast falling in to decay. Viscount Alien­ llexham county court district. The Duke of North­ dale P_C_, D_L_. JP_ of Bywell Hall, is lord of thP umberland K.G., P.C. is lord of the manor, and the manor llnrl sole lando~ner. The area is 1,146 acres of sole landowner. The chief crops are oats, barley and land and 59 of water; rateable value, £I, 844; popula­ turnips. The soil is clayey; subsoil, stone. The area i~ tion in I9II, so. 969 acres of land and 53 of water; rateable value, Letters from Stocksfield, Northumb. Horsley, about z £2,669; the population in I9II was So_ miles distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph "'all Letter Box, cleared 2.20 p-m. week days only. office Letters through 8tocksfield, N orthumb. arrive at 9-45 a.m_ Horsley is the nearest post, monev orcte\ & WHITTLE is a township, in the union of Hexham, and telegraph office, 2~ milt's distant Hexham and Bellingham county court district, IJ miles north from Prudhoe railway station, on a. stream flowing into the Tyne, and on which is a corn mill. The Duke X .lFFERTON is a township 2 milt s north from the of Northumberland K-G-, P-C. is lord of the manor, river Tyne and tm the road from Corbr idge toN ewcastle, and the trustees of the late Henry Hind esq. are the 2 miles nurth-west frum Prudhoe station un the New­ sole landowners. The area is z88 acres; rateable value. castle and Carlisle section of the ~orth East~rn rail1raY, • £689; population in I9II, 22 . and 9 north-east from Hexham, in Hexham union and Hexham and Bellingham county court dist1·ict. On an Letters through Ovingham, Northumb. Horsley is the eminence in the township are the remains of an ancient nearest money order & telegraph office, about r~ miles castle, erected in the reign of King John by Philip distant de Ulecote, sheriff of Northumberland in 1212, and in W}lam and Horsley, townships in Ovingham civil r2I8 one of the itinerant justices for the North; it is parish, have been formed into the ecclesiastical parisb built of materials from the neighbouring Roman wall, of WYlam,• and will be found under the letter W . OVINGHAM. Robson Anthony, cooper OVINGTON. Gofton John, 2 The Terrace , Shanks Wm.Thos. frmr.Mount Hulev• Barron John T Hoyle Richard, Croft house Thompson James Richard, joiner Dickson-Brown Lionel D. Wellburn Johnson .Jame11, 5 The Terrace IThompsonJeremiah,grocer,&Post office McGoull Mrs_ Ovington house Thorp Rev. Charles Fenwick (vicar), Tulip Ralph, White Swan P.H ~cCoull William, Ovington house Vicarage HARLOW HILL. · Robson John . COMM~RCIAL. I Bedlington William, brewer Bell William, land ag€nt to the Duke of COMMERCIAl,. Brown Ro bert J. grocer Northumberland K.G., P.C. & frmr Atkinson Joshua. farmer, Crook hill Cemetery (Robert B. Vickers, Oving- Hall John, blacksmith Best George, tailor ton, clerk to the Burial Board) Hindmarch Robert J ohnson, temper­ Best John, tailor Cook Martin, draper ance hotel Carins MichL farmer, Ovington lodgll' Cook Thomas, butcher Hindmarch William R. farmer . Davidson Thomas, cartwright · • Co:xon John Wm_ farmer, Thr Glebe Rob~on George, as~istant overseer 'Hnddlestone ~atthew, saddler Hall Paul & Wm. farmers,Bleach g-rn Hunter Richard, Ship inn Xevin Joseph, blacksmith NAFFERTOl\'. j Hunter \Villiam, yeoman Hobertson George, Bridge inn Sanderson Francis, farmer Lumlev- Robt. & Co. brewrrs & fnnrs '