ifio ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



Rev. Thomas Dockwray, D. D. the prefent incumbent ; over the 

 fouth entrance, the following infcription. 



HASCE REFECIT THOMAS DOCKWRAY. 

 MDGCLXII. 



The houfe and gardens contain about five acres ; the latter caft 

 into a new and genteel form by Dr. Dockivray; a flew-brick-wall 

 in it of eighty feet ; a fine terrace extending eaft and weft before 

 the houfe ; a mount of flowers on an irregular grafs-lawn below 

 it ; with borders of flowers and flowering-lhrubs ; encompafTed 

 for about two parts by the Pont ; with a variety of walks, fome 

 of them under an evergreen-made, to the wed; a little ifland, 

 formed by the Pont, to the eaft, crofled by a nc-." ftonc-bridge of 

 two arches -, a grove of tall forcft-trees on its fouthern banks; 

 the fmall villa of Haivk-wellbthmd them, partly difcerned through 

 the trees: the weftcrn vale-profpcct bounded a L the diftance of 

 four or five miles by a femicircular ridge of hills ; the villas of 

 7?n7/and Ing how vifible through the clumps of trees in the mea- 

 dows, both on eminences, the latter on limeftonc, with a chapel 

 in it. 



A fhort mile eaft from Staaifordham t on the fouth fide of the 

 Pont, is 



Chtefturn-Grange, the manottr of which belonged to the priory 

 of Hexham (q). It was the feat and eftate of Gaiven Sivinburn, Efq; 

 10 Q^Elizabcth (r) 5 and of Thomas Widdritigton, Efq; of Gre/s Inn, 



(f) See Hexi'am-Pciory, 



(r) Gaivinus Swynburn fuit fcilitus de et in uno capital! meflaagio, vocat. Chetfburn- 

 G range. Efcact. ic Eliz. 



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