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the list of Owners see Appendix C. ; the other information is for 

 the present reserved. 



Opposite to the village of North Charlton, and its altm-ed inu, 

 once the Spread Eagle, and tenanted, with the farm of Edington, 

 by the Rochesters — a freezing, chilly place in my recollection — 

 are a number of stones piled together in N. and S. lines, possibly 

 the ruins of the night-folds for the protection of the sheep of the 

 place in perilous times. After passing the old Inn, now con- 

 verted into dwelling houses, the company was conducted into a 

 field on the right hand of the road passing up through the 

 village, to the site of the Cross— or Crosses, for it is of two 

 pieces of sandstone of different composition. Cottages had stood 

 in a row on the ground it now occupies. The white sandstone 

 steps at the base are probably those of the old village cross, but 

 to the top of these has been cemented the ])edestal, also of sand- 

 stone, of another cross, and attached to it in a socket is a reddish 

 broken pillar of sandstone, perhaps the cross on a height in the 

 Kame field, indicated in Armstrong's Map, as standing in 1769. 

 (See Appendix D.) The old village is now swept away, from 

 which the surrounding lands were farmed. Between the present 

 site of this cross and the tree-shaded hillock to the north, lay 

 the grave-yard of the Chapel, which is now laid down in grass. 

 At least ten graves were disturbed when it was cultivated. The 

 foundations of the oblong chapel are still outlined on the top of 

 the hillock. (Appendix E.) From this elevation, looking north- 

 wards, Brockdam on a rising ridge is visible among trees ; and 

 Newstead lies still more remote to the northwards. 



Within a recent date there were horse races at North 

 Charlton. 



Captain Simmonds afterwards stated that in an old Map of 

 the Ellin gham estate, there is the plan of "an Abbey" placed 

 in the field where the curious ridges are at North Charlton, and 

 that the fields next to it on Tinely farm, are called the "Abbey 

 Lands " to this day. [Letter from Mr Mathison, Wandylaw, 

 20th May 1891.] Can Alnwick Abbey have had a grange there, 

 near the old Berwick and Alnwick road ? "Abbey Walls " does 

 not imply that an Abbey stood there, but that the walls were 

 erected on the property of the Abbey, which was conterminous. 

 (See Appendix F.) 



After thanking Mr Little for his attention, and accommodation 



