Bygate Hall, Alwinton

[aidansrest]

Hi,

Does any body know when Bygate (Byegate) Hall in Alwinton was built and by whom? Was it built by the Bygate family?

Thanks

Sue

[hanes teulu]

Had you seen
http://taggerty.wordpress.com/category/places/bygate-hall-alwinton-parish-northumberland

Doesn't answer your specific question but an interesting insight into the place

[hanes teulu]

The earliest reference I've found (1753) -

An INDEX of PLACES mentioned in Mr Horsley's MAP of Northumberland, MDCCLIII
Bygate Hall    Parish, Allenton    Wards, Coquetdale, W.

[hanes teulu]

Slightly earlier reference -

The POLL of FREEHOLDERS of the County of Northumberland      Taken at Alnwick on the 18th, 19th, 20th, and 24th of February 1747 - 8

Freeholders in Coquetdale
Name, Bell Mathew, Esq, jun     Place of Residence, Newcastle     Freeholds, Bygate Hall
The entry concludes with a column of figures "No" = 59    "O." = 1  "A". = blank

"No" presumably short for "Number" (but number of what?) - can't work out the significance of "O" or "A"
   

[DOMJ49]

Bygate Hall is mentioned in connection with an unsuccessful theft of ‘twenty-seven score of sheep’ in circa 1645 (Fraser 1878, 304) and there is an explicit reference to it in 1684 when its owner or tenant, James Robson, was party to a lease of land at Makendon further up the valley (Northumberland Archives 1684). In the early eighteenth century it appeared in a list of rates (Book of Rates 1731, 34).

FRASER, W. 1878 The Scotts of Buccleuch Vol 1, Edinburgh, University Press
NORTHUMBERLAND ARCHIVES 1684 Lease for land at Makendon, Northumberland, NRO ZCE/B/1/7/3.
BOOK OF RATES 1731 Northumberland. Private collection D. Jones

[nort]

There's a book Northumberland's Lost Houses by Jim Davidson that has a small piece on Bygate and a photo.Demolished in 1952 replaced by Bygate Cottages.