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published by the Surtees Society,is a series of interesting charters 

 headed Strecton, beginning in the reign of Henry II. (1154-1189). 

 The first is a grant from Everard de Kos to " the Abbey of St. 

 " Mary Newminster and the monks there serving God, for the 

 " soul of King Henry the Elder, and for the salvation of my 

 " Lord King Henry son of Mathilda, and of his sons, and for 

 "the souls of Walter Espec, and R. de Kos, (of) my father and 

 " my mother, and of all my ancestors, and for my salvation, 



" &c Strettuna by its right boundaries, and with 



"all its appurtenances, in wood and plain, in meadow and 

 "pastures, in roads and lanes, waters and mills, and all other 

 "things, free and quiet and relieved from all civil services and 

 " secular exactions, and pleas, and assessments, and aids, and 

 " taxes, and danegelds, and hornagelds, and from that service 

 " of the king called Utware &c. ; by these boundaries, viz. as 

 " Alriburnby Strectuna runs to Kideford, and from Kideford as 

 "the boundary of Strectuna and Brotherwick goes to Hereford- 

 " lees, and thence as the boundary of Strectuna across Hereford- 

 "lees goes to Hereford, and thence by the Coquet to the ditch 

 " (fossatum) of Wyteley, and thence as the boundary of Strectuna 

 " goes to Merethorn, and then to Hundhakeston, and from 

 "Milneden, and from Milneburn to Colepethburn, and thence to 

 " Harethorn burn, and from Harethorn burn by a path that goes 

 " towards the North as far as the road that runs by the great 

 " trunk (truncum magnum) to Harethornley, and thence across 

 " by Leremouthley towards the North East to the aforesaid Alri- 

 "burn, and all ' Strectuneles ' beyond the aforesaid boundaries 

 "to the plains of Sipplebottle unto the common between 

 "Strettune and Sipplebottle." From this description of bound- 

 aries we see that the grant included what is now the separate 

 township of Walk Mill (127 acres), in old records called the 

 Grange Walk Mill. Alriburn or Alderburn is the Tylee Burn, 

 Kideford, the ford near Warkworth Station now superseded by 

 Houndean Bridge ; Brotherwick speaks for itself. Herefordlees 

 was probably Warkworth Moor: the ditch or letch of Wyteley 

 may be identified with the letch which still divides Walk Mill 

 from Guyzance ; Merethorn and Hundhakeston have not been 

 identified ; but Milneden and Milneburn may be recognised in 

 . the field at the West of South Side Farm called Milden Hill and 

 the adjacent runner. 



Of the Assessments from which the lands were to be relieved, 



