88 Amhle and Hauxley. By J. C. Hodgson. 



bed of Conglomerate ; and (with favouring tides) a submerged 

 forest with trunks and roots of trees in wonderful preservation, 

 and in part overlaid by a glacial deposit with ice-worn boulders. 

 After a storm, much coal is washed up from the breaking up of 

 thin seams, whose outcrop is within the range of the breakers. 

 Good freestone is wrought on Amble Link for exportation as 

 well as for home use. 



The soil, a strong loam with a clay subsoil, requires much 

 working ; and little of it, save a strip running with the links is 

 adapted for barley or turnips, but produces plentiful crops of 

 fine wheat and very superior pasture ground. 



Population. 





Amble. 



Hauxley. 



1801—152 



92 



1811—155 



113 



1821—197 [49 houses] 



114 [26 houses]' 



1831— 247^ 



143 



1881—2016 



972 



1891—2857 



1031 



i place name, is found in a vi 



lage on the 



Fjord in Norway ; at Ambleston — near Milford Haven — a town 

 founded (says Canon Taylor) by the Viking Hamill f at Amble- 

 side, in the Lake District, etc. 



It has been said that "the one fixed element in the unstable 

 life of a nomadic race is the ancestral burial place." That of 

 the prehistoric inhabitants of Amble was discovered a few years 

 ago on the links, and the treasures found are described in these 

 pages by Mr G. H. Thompson.* Up to this time about 

 40 of the graves have been unearthed in the quarrying 

 operations. 



Vestiges of the Roman occupation have been found in the 

 adjoining township of Gloster-hill. 



Both Amble and Hauxley were doubtless included in King 

 Ceolwulf's grant of Warkworth to Lindisfarne in 737, a grant 

 resumed by his successors. 



* Parsons and White, Vol. ii., p. 546. 



^ Dickson, Wards, etc. of Northumberland, p. 53. 

 ^ Words and Places, p. 185. 



* Proceedings, Vol. x., pp. 523-530. See also Arch. ^1., Vol. m., pp. 



