ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. iij- 



berland, 1740, and a reprcfcntative for it in the prefent parlia- 

 ment. By raifing plantations, hedge-rows, and buildings, he 

 hath given a kind of new form to it, exceedingly agreeable : To 

 the fouth-wefl is an artificial ruin on an eminence ; a large 

 and beautiful piece of water to the fouth, under a bank planted 

 with foreft-trees, and a Tcmpiato at the top ; all in view from the 

 fouth front ; a ferpentine walk leading to the latter, edged with 

 flowering flirubs. It is in the chapelry of 



Thockrington (a), a peculiar of the church of Tork, which wa9 

 impropriated to it by Richard Bifhop of Durham, 1304. It is a 

 prebend, and the lowed in that cathedral ; the firft fruits, 

 2.1. 17 s. id. The chapel was lately repaired. It ftands on an 

 eminence, and is in view from St. Oswald's chapel, and the iSth 

 mile-ftone ; from which we pafs on to 



Port-gate, near the I7th mile-ftone ; fo called from its giving a 

 paffage through it. On a hill by it is a farm-houfe which takes 

 its name, and was in the poiTeflion of Odofiell de Camaby, icth Q._ 

 Elizabeth (b), and lately of William Errington, Efq; and now of his 

 nephew, Henry Errington, Efq; of Sandhoe, younger brother to John 

 ErriHgton, Efq; of Ecaufront. By its high fituation, and one or 

 two foreft-trccs by it, it is diftinguiflied at a great diflance. The 

 very foundations of the Roman wall, and fofs, have been digged 

 up, plowed, and fown with corn. 



(a) Tockrington. Rroune JV~ilh\ Survey of the Catliedr. vol. i. p. 168 j "where is a lift 

 pf the prebends, 



(b) OdoneH dc Carnaly fuit feifitus de et imo capital! melTuagio vocat. Port- Yet. 



U de anno 10 Eliz. 



A little 



