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stituted into a township does not appear. It contained 1 " farme " 

 but its subsequent History is obscure. It is now owned by Mr. 

 John Tate of Barnhill. 



Stub/ton Grange East Field. 



The farm of Eastfield with the Grange Water Mill seem to 

 have been alienated between 1663 and 1691. In the latter year 

 Edward Cook of Togston New Hall bequeathed Eastfield to one 

 of his sons : to others he left Brainshaugh, Low Newton, 

 Newton-on-the-Moor, Blakemoor, Togston, &c. In the Faculty 

 List of Pews in Warkworth Church, in 1719, John Cook has a 

 pew for Sturton Grange. In 1731 John Cook of Eastfield was 

 elected an overseer for highways for the Grange district : in 1744 

 he was Churchwarden. In 1747 he voted for that estate at 

 the County election/" and in 1764 we find the entry at Warkworth 

 of the burial of John Cook senior of Eastfield. 



In 1750 John Cook of Blakemoor was married at Warkworth 

 to Margaret Cook of Eastfield, and in 1753 Thos. Storrer of 

 Bothbury was married to Ann Cook of Eastfield. John Cook 

 was warden in 1766 and voted for his estate of Eastfield*' in 1774. 

 In 1777 the Churchwardens received of Mrs. Cook of Eastfield 

 10s. for graveleave for John Cook who in that year died 

 and was buried within the Parish Church. In 1781 there 

 is the following entry in the parish books " Beceived for 

 grave leave for Mrs. Cook, 10s." The wardens do not say of 

 Eastfield, but we may so conclude as the name of Cook does not 

 again appear in connexion with Eastfield, which was about that 

 time purchased by the Applebys. The Appleby family had 

 been copy holders at Acklington for some generations and 

 yeomen ; the purchasers of Eastfield were Thomas Apple- 

 by and his son Nicholas ; they paid some £8000 for 

 it. Thomas who died in 1790 aged 67 years, and was buried 

 at Warkworth, had married Isabella Brown of East Chevington, 

 who was of the same family as Sarah Brown (wife of the Bev. 

 Jos. Cook of Newton) who inherited half of the estates of the 

 Hauxley Widdringtons, at the death of John Widdrington in 

 1797. Nicholas Appleby was one of the Twenty -four of the 

 parish in 1790, and a churchwarden in 1787 and 1809. His 

 name with the year 1797, is on a sundial which still remains at 

 Eastfield. He was a man of ability and of very frugal habits : 

 * Poll Book, 



