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Sturton Grange. By J. C. Hodgson. 



In 1747 there is a note that " the Holy Bread money begins at 

 " Eastheld." The collection was made in sections of the parish, 

 this year beginning where last year it left off until some 13s. 4d. 

 was received : the impost was exacted long after the rite had 

 become obsolete and disappeared, but after 1749, it too was 

 discontinued. 



The site of the monastic Grange is by tradition on the Grange 

 Green, by the side of the Grange Burn, some 150 yards east of the 

 present onstead : the spot was marked by a fine shaped ash tree 

 which fell in the great gale of 1881. Foundations of walls have 

 recently been discovered when draining. One of the former 

 owners had a piece of crockery unearthed at this place, and had 

 been told that the onsteads of the Grange farm and of South 

 Side had been built out of the old buildings of the monks. It 

 may be remembered however that both of these onsteads have 

 been practically rebuilt during the last 25 years. The Grange 

 Mill, loved of artists, was driven by an overshot wheel and 

 worked until 1880. The adjoining field is called the Windmill 

 Hill : — every tradition of such a mill has died out. The field 

 next the Low Buston Road is called the Cross Hill ; and one on 

 the western march is still called "Milden;" the very name 

 mentioned in the original grant by Everard de Eos. Annual 

 payments of 6d. and iOd. were payable to the Duke of Nor- 

 thumberland for Rent Hens out of Eastfield, but have in late 

 years been redeemed. 



Much has been done to chronicle and classify local place 

 names : field names are quite as interesting and characteristic as 

 those of villages. Appended is a list of names of fields worthy 

 of preservation. 



South Side. 



The Grange Farm 

 Black Dean. 

 Thistle}' Leazes. 

 Eight Oaks. 

 Hanging Bank. 

 Cross Hill. 

 Cold Firth. 

 Causey Flat. 

 Dove Cote Field. 

 Night Close. 



Middle | Yoke - 

 Copt Hill. 

 Farney Hill. 

 Bedford Gate (ford.) 



Near ) 



Leazes. 



Far ( 

 »e Hill. 

 Milden. 

 Grange Pool. 

 Fore Bank. 

 Broomhili. 

 High Hall Hill. 



Near j Uwerts - 

 (*query Awards?) 



Eastfield. 

 "White Halvers. 

 The Tofts. 

 Windmill Hill. 

 Ox Lairs. 

 Green Knows. 

 Near j 



Middle > Awards. 

 Far ) 

 White Sprouts. 

 Hounden Butts. 

 Twenty Ridges. 

 Red Side. 

 Gaubutts. 



