Dewley village
Dewley village
HER Number
1314
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Dewley village
Place
Dewley
Map Sheet
NZ16NE
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
Settlement
Site Type: Specific
Deserted Settlement
General Period
MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Medieval 1066 to 1540
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
The first reference is in the Lay Subsidy Roll of 1296 when Dewley had 4 tax- payers. There were 4 again in 1312. Described as a waste place, worth 13s 4d, in 1367, in 1499/1500 it was listed as a hamlet, though in decay. In 1622 Cuthbert Heron held "a house and a close called Dewly." Fairly certainly a shrunk or deserted settlement, perhaps due to its failure to recover from Scottish devastations. The site is unknown, but may be the present Dewley Farm, or the former East Dewley, which apparently accords with the house shown on a map of 1620.
Easting
416300
Northing
567800
Grid Reference
NZ416300567800
Sources
<< HER 1314 >> M.H. Dodds, 1930, Newburn and Newburn Hall Townships, Northumberland County History, XIII, 143-149, 156
Alnwick Castle, Duke of Northumberland's MSS, 1620,of Manor of Newburn... MR 0.XVII.1
Alnwick Castle, Duke of Northumberland's MSS, 1710,of Dewley, Butterley and Whorleton Moor... 0.XVII.2
S. Wrathmell, Unpublished PhD thesis, II, 358-9 -Northumberland Records Office
(date unknown), - 44.11G Northumberland Records Office, ZAN Bell
1767, Lordship of Newburn -Northumberland Records Office, ZAN Bell 45.2
Northumberland Records Office, 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1:2,500 scale, Durham 87.16
Alnwick Castle, Duke of Northumberland's MSS, 1620,of Manor of Newburn... MR 0.XVII.1
Alnwick Castle, Duke of Northumberland's MSS, 1710,of Dewley, Butterley and Whorleton Moor... 0.XVII.2
S. Wrathmell, Unpublished PhD thesis, II, 358-9 -Northumberland Records Office
(date unknown), - 44.11G Northumberland Records Office, ZAN Bell
1767, Lordship of Newburn -Northumberland Records Office, ZAN Bell 45.2
Northumberland Records Office, 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1:2,500 scale, Durham 87.16