I scoured the 1860s maps and found nothing labelled as
Wark Eals in the search zone. I think the name must have gone out of use by time of detailed maps in 1860s. However I'm now pretty sure where Wark Eals was
In the text of the link posted by
JenB there's this passage:
"he became, on coming of age, the tenant of his father's small estate of Wark Eals on North Tyne. This property had been sold in 1663 (when wheat was allowed to be exported, if not above 48s. a quarter, at a duty of Ss. 4d. a quarter) for ;^22 3 : 5s. to a yeoman who kept it in his own hands for forty years. It was then sold for ;f 1000. In about 1772 it was again offered for sale; John Bates, then an old man, went to view it with his son George, and pluck-ing a stalk of clover wound it thrice round his hat. This evidence of the fertility of the soil so fixed itself in George's memory, that after it had been more than fourteen years in the market he bought it for ;£" 4000 in 1787, without having ever again been to inspect it Mr. Thomas Ridley, the owner of the adjoining allotment of Park End, had offered only ;^2 500, and said he would not have made any advance on this at the time of the commencement of Bates's tenancy in 1796.^ The property consisted partly of a considerable tract of haugh-land, which had once been a series of eals^ or islets, and was liable to be flooded, and partly of allotments on high-lying commons."So location must be next to Park End which is extreme eastern end of Broadpool Common and also lie by the river and stretch westwards from there to the higher ground. Having given up on the 1860s maps I dug out Armstrong's map of Northumberland 1769 (sheet 6)... and after a few moments looking found a place named
Eals lying immediately to North of Park End (on 1769 map) by the river which fits the description in text above. On this map (sheet 5) is also shown the Eals that survives on modern maps just south of Bellingham. It would make perfect sense then for this Eals to have be known as Wark Eals to distinguish it from "Bellingham" Eals lying a few miles to its North. Modern maps, & the 1860s ones, name the location of Wark Eals as
Low Parkend, based on alignment with L(in/ynd)hurst and Thro(ugh)gate(s) to its West. This suggests the estate was perhaps acquired by the owners of Park End by mid 1800s and it was absorbed into their estate... just to confuse things the 1769 shown location of Park End when looked at on a modern 25k OS maps is now called Little/Low Parkside and Park End is to the North
... older maps can be a little creative in relative locations of places
Pete
