Near Blyth? Completed with thanks

[Michael Dixon]

Dolly,

The parish church dedicated to St Mary the Virgin was within the "township" of Horton, within the Parish of Horton ( the other " townships" were Cowpen, which included Cowpen Quay,etc.,  East Hartford, West Hartford and Bebside)

The church was never lost, but where is the village ? In my 69 yrs (or most of them) I have seen the church in open land, with hardly any other buildings nearby.  Even the vicarage was more than quarter of a mile away !

I did however as a child remember the odd cottage ruins along Horton Road, but they would never had made up a "village"

( In earlier times there was a community called Low Horton- now called New Delaval).

Referring to Stan's modern map, up to 1890s, the Horton Parish would have included land right up to the river side in Cowpen Quay/Blyth.

Michael

[stanmapstone]

This map shows the boundary of Horton Parochial Chapelry in Woodhorn, before 1850. The Chapelry consists of sections (Townships) 478 to 482.

[Michael Dixon]

 Wonderful map, Stan !

478= Cowpen, 479= Bebside, 480= East Hartford, 481= West Hartford, 482= Horton.

483=South Blyth, 484= Newsham, 485= Seaton Delaval ( three of the eight Townships that comprised Earsdon Parish)

 I was born in Bebside colliery village, that lay within the Cowpen township
(478), not within the Bebside township (479) .  The community of Bebside colliery got it's name from the name of the company owning the mine, not for geographic reasons..

Michael

 

[Mr. Tibbs]

How clear!  Brilliant map.  Thank you but...Cowpen is on the river, why Cowpen QUAY?  Is it the same as Haugh or Haughs on the Tyne?  Or is it like Newcastle Quayside?

[stanmapstone]

You can see Cowpen Quay marked on the map at http://communities.northumberland.gov.uk/005986FS.htm
The Quay is on the river.

Stan

[Mr. Tibbs]

Absolutely spot on.  Thank you.  Now I understand: it's all to do with the shipyards!  Robert was a tailor so I wasn't even thinking coal mining never mind ships.  Great, much appreciated

[Malcommon]

Have a look at this link to page 242/3 of a History of Northumberland which explains about the Village of Horton.
Malcolm.

http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofnorthum09nort#page/242/mode/2up/search/Horton+Castle

[emmadog]

Hi all, I knew roughly where Horton was (sure where now since I looked at the mentioned map).  I was not sure what the church at Horton was  called.  I was Born at North Blyth and then lived at Cowpen Quay for 11 years.

I knew that St Cuthberts church (where I was christened) was a chapel of ease but did not know abut St Marys which was the church where my grandparents were married.

I have learnt so much about my birthplace from Michael Dixon (and others) since joining Rootschat and it makes my research so more understandable!!!!

Barbara.

[Mr. Tibbs]

What a wonderful book, Malcolm.  Although my roots are in the northeast and I have lived here almost all of my life, I am feeling that I have no knowledge or understanding of this particular area.  All of the names mentioned on these pages, I have passed through at various times during my life and they come into conversation intermittently BUT this written description has done much more to make me realise how close all these townships are to each other.

I have learned so much that gives me a wider understanding of where my ancestors lived and what was familiar to them.