254 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



It is a well-built village ; a large grafs area in the center, with 

 a. n^at raifed .caufeway through it ; two gentlemen's feats on ach 

 fide, with excellent gardens ; the moil rural and romantic, thofe 

 of 'James M one aft or ^ Efq; a winding ftreamlet taking its courfe 

 bct\veen two terraced flopes, and forming a canal, with a bridge 

 over it. 



At the call end of the village, is a neat brick-ftrucTrure, con- 



fifting of two large rooms ; the lower one ferving for a fchool, 

 and the other for a mafler to dwell in ; the donation of the elded 

 fiftcr of James Moncafter, Efq; to the parifli. 



The church is on an eminence, at a fmall diftance from the 

 village, to the north-eaft ; the afcent to it fleep, by ftone-ftcps. 



A mile cad from it, a road branches off through a gate on the 

 right hand, to 



Hoivden-Pansy a populous village in the fame parifh, fo called 

 from the falt-pans in it, and its fituation under a hill, in the Den 

 or valley , How fignifying a hill. It flands almoft clofe to the 

 river Tyne, on whofe banks is a fine key for the mipping to heave 

 their ballad, of near a quarter of a mile in length, commonly 

 called JVillin^toi-key^ from the OJlium of Willington-'bm'n at the 

 weft end. A dock, a ropery, and a fmithery, at this place, f ur- 

 nifh employment for upwards of 100 people. The dock holds 

 two mips. 



Near three miles farther eaft, the Shields road makes a flexure 

 on the right hand by a gradual defcent to the town of 



North 



