Mason village

HER Number

1333

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Mason village

Place

Mason

Map Sheet

NZ27SW

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 vill of "Merdesfen" was first mentioned in 1190 when a toft there was granted by Sir Roger Bertram to St. Batholomew's Nunnery. There were 8 taxpayers in 1296, 10 in 1312. In 1331 there were 7 occupied tenements, in 1335 24 tofts (probably abandoned). Possibly the village, as such, did not survive the Middle Ages, and its site was thereafter marked by the surviving North Farm and the former South Farm, at the north-east end of Dinnington.

Easting

420800

Northing

573500

Grid Reference

NZ420800573500

Sources

<< HER 1333 >> W.S. Gibson, 1846, The History of the Monastery at Tynemouth, I, 74, 145-6; II, xxxvi
M.H. Dodds, 1926, Mason Township, Northumberland County History, XII, 471-5
Tithe Awards, 1840, Mason, Northumberland Records Office,DT 314 S
S. Wrathmell, Unpublished PhD thesis, II, 430-1
1769, Mason, Northumberland Records Office, Watson Coll, 20.13
D. Maddison, 1830, A Historical and Descriptive Account of Prestwick Carr and its Environ, p 38 - 46