Newbiggin village

HER Number

1344

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Newbiggin village

Place

Newbiggin

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

There are references in 1228-29 to a law suit concerning Newbiggin, and it appears in the Lay Subsidy Roll with 8 tax-payers as "Neubyging' Faudon". A member of the barony of Whalton at the beginning, it was in the ownership of the Greystoke family, later the Dacres and Howards, between the 15th century-17th century, and the Bells of Woolsington from before 1826 to 1922. A map of 1789 shows 2 farms, High Newbiggin at the west end of the complex, and Low Newbiggin, in the Green, and with a pond, at the east end. This is a possible site of the village.

Easting

419000

Northing

568000

Grid Reference

NZ419000568000

Sources

<< HER 1344 >> W.H. Thompson, 1921, Northumberland Pleas, 1198-1272, Newcastle Record Series, II, nos. 299-301, 312-15, 318, 326
(date unknown), Contents of Newbiggen Estate, Northumberland Records Office, ZAN Bell, 13.1
1789, Map, Newbiggin Estate, Northumberland Records Office, Watson Coll, 23A.12
Tithe Awards, 1843, Newbiggin, Northumberland Records Office, DT 338 S
CLAs, 1920, Conditions of Sale, Woolsington Estate, Northumberland Records Office, 99.1
M.H. Dodds, 1930, Newbiggin-on-the-Moor Township, Northumberland County History, XIII, 201-203
S. Wrathmell, Unpublished PhD thesis, II, 453-Northumberland Records Office