Butterlaw village
Butterlaw village
HER Number
1301
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Butterlaw village
Place
Butterlaw
Map Sheet
NZ16NE
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
Settlement
Site Type: Specific
Shrunken Village
General Period
MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Medieval 1066 to 1540
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
The earliest reference is from 1242, and in 1296 there were 6 taxpayers. Robert fitzRoger 1309 died seised of 12 bondage holdings, each containing one messuage, 16 acres of arable and a cottage. The village was certainly shrinking while held by the Percy family, and by 1620 there was only`one farm at Butterlaw, one each at East and West Whorlton. Today at Butterlaw there is just one farm, and much of the surrounding land has been opencasted.
Easting
418200
Northing
569000
Grid Reference
NZ418200569000
Sources
<< HER 1301 >> Aerial Photograph, Wellbar House, RAF - Box 8 0420, F21 58.RAF.2657
Aerial Photograph, RAF - CPE.UK.2352 3131-2 4 10 47
M.H. Dodds, 1930, Walbottle Butterley and Whorlton Townships, Northumberland County History, XIII, 154-158
Alnwick Castle, Duke of Northumberland's MSS, 1620, Plan of Walbottle and Butterlaw, O XVII nos. 1 and 5
Alnwick Castle, Duke of Northumberland's MSS, 1710, Plan of Dewley Butterley and Whorleton Moor, O XVII 2
1767, Plan of the Lordship of Newburn -Northumberland Records Office, ZAN Bell 45.2
(date unknown), with field names -Northumberland Records Office, ZAN Bell 18.1-5
Tithe Awards, 1847, Butterley -Northumberland Records Office, DT 80 M
Tithe Awards, Butterlaw (Whorlton) -Northumberland Records Office, DT 509 M
S. Wrathmell, Unpublished PhD thesis, Vol. II, 326-7 -Northumberland Records Office
Aerial Photograph, RAF - CPE.UK.2352 3131-2 4 10 47
M.H. Dodds, 1930, Walbottle Butterley and Whorlton Townships, Northumberland County History, XIII, 154-158
Alnwick Castle, Duke of Northumberland's MSS, 1620, Plan of Walbottle and Butterlaw, O XVII nos. 1 and 5
Alnwick Castle, Duke of Northumberland's MSS, 1710, Plan of Dewley Butterley and Whorleton Moor, O XVII 2
1767, Plan of the Lordship of Newburn -Northumberland Records Office, ZAN Bell 45.2
(date unknown), with field names -Northumberland Records Office, ZAN Bell 18.1-5
Tithe Awards, 1847, Butterley -Northumberland Records Office, DT 80 M
Tithe Awards, Butterlaw (Whorlton) -Northumberland Records Office, DT 509 M
S. Wrathmell, Unpublished PhD thesis, Vol. II, 326-7 -Northumberland Records Office