5 o8 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



(on, Baron of Blankney, by Elizabeth Berty, heir to Sir Peregrine Berty, 

 and niece to the right honourable the Earl of Lindfey, lord high 

 chamberlain of England, by whom he had Ralph Clavering, father 

 of the late Clavering, and grandfather of the prefent pof- 



fcffor of Calleley and Tetlington, Ralph Clavering y Efq. 



His feat of Calleley is on the fouth fide of a ftream of the fame 

 name, in a low iituation ; built on to an old tower, to which he 

 hath made handfome additions ; a large and elegant dining- 

 room in it, with two mufic-galleries. The ftreamlet takes its 

 courfe between two dopes, on one of which, to the north, is the 

 garden ; and on the other, to the fouth-eaft, an octagon-grove, 

 called The Star ; a paddock of deer between it and the houfe. At 

 a fraall diftance, to the fouth-eaft, is a high conic hill, called 

 Caftle-hill, on which is a circular intrenchment with vejliges of 

 buildings ; an extenfive profpect from it of the vales of Coquet t 

 Whittingham, and Glendale. 



A mile weft from Calleley , is 



Little-Ryle, the villa and feat of a younger branch of the Col- 

 lingivoods of Ejlington ; of Alexander Collingivood, high fheriff of 

 Northumberland, 1725; who built a handfome feat at Unthank, 

 hard by, now the feat of his fon and heir, Alexander Collingivood, 

 Efq; high fheriff of Northumberland, 1761. 



Three miles fouth-weft from Little Ryle, is 



Carting ton, which was the feat and manour of the antient fami- 

 ly of the Ratcliffs ; of Sir Ed-ward Ratdlff, high fheriff of Northum- 

 berland, 1 7 K. Henry VII (z) j of Sir Cuthbert Rat cliff, high fheriff of 



(z) Efcaet. deanno 17 Hen. 17. 



Nor- 



