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Bebside Old Hall
In the civil parish of Blyth Valley.
In the historic county of Northumberland (Modern Authority of Northumberland, 1974 county of Northumberland).
As one of the manors that made up the liberty of Tynemouth, Bebside possessed a manorial hall, grange, and demesne farm, and formed an administration & economic centre for the working of the monastic estates. The Pre-Reformation buildings stood on the south side of the Cowpen road, close to its junction with the road from Horton-Bedlington. Suggestions of the moat that surrounded them are to be found in the disused ditches to the East and South of Bebside Hall, and in a similar depression to the west. Within the enclosure stood the farm buildings as well as the hall, which is mentioned in 1264/5. The Pre-Reformation buildings stood on the south side of the Cowpen road, close to its junction with the road from Horton-Bedlington. Traces of the moat that surrounded them are to be found in the disused ditches to the east and south of Bebside Hall, and in a similar depression to the west. Within the enclosure stood the farm buildings as well as the hall, which is mentioned in 1264/5. After the Dissolution of Tynemouth in 1539 Bebside was bought by John Ogle of Newsham. He or his successor replaces the manorial hall with a new hall 100ft long incorporating a tower measuring 30ft by 20ft. This was demolished in 1853.
This site has been described as a;
Fortified Manor House.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Cropmarks/slight earthworks remains.
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NZ270809
PastScape number;
25385
County Sites and Monuments Record number; N11745
- Web site links
- Books
- Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Keepdate Publishing) p219-20
Salter, Mike, 1997, The Castles and Tower Houses of Northumberland (Malvern) p23
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p356 [possible]
Graham, Frank, 1976, The Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham) p55
Long, B., 1967, Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p60
Craster, H.H.E. (ed), 1909, Northumberland County History (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Vol9 p293-7
- Journal Articles
- Hadcock, R.N., 1939, 'Map of Mediaeval Northum and Durham' Archaeologia Aeliana [ser4] Vol16 p148-218
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