Heaton village

HER Number

1406

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Heaton village

Place

Heaton

Map Sheet

NZ26NE

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

Heaton is first referred to in 1157 as Hactona, a member of the Gaugy moiety of the barony of Ellingham; in 1279 as Hoton. This has been translated as haugh-ton, the village on the haugh of the Ouse Burn. There were 5 taxpayers in 1296, 8 in 1312. In 1421 the manor included a capital messuage, 6 existing and 2 waste husbandlands; in 1454 a capital messuage 7 husbandlands and 7 cottages. There had probably been a dispersion by the 18th century, by which time the c.8 farms were isolated or irregularly clustered. The area is now covered by urban sprawl and parkland.

Easting

426000

Northing

565000

Grid Reference

NZ426000565000

Sources

<< HER 1406 >> M.H. Dodds, 1930, Heaton Township, Northumberland County History, XIII, 277-288
1741, Rental, Matthew Ridley's Real Estate, Northumberland Records Office ZRI - 40.1
Plan - ref. C188 of Estate, Northumberland Records Office ZRI, 50.9
1745, Population for billeting purposes, Northumberland Records Office ZRI, 27.4.80
Seymour Bell, John Bell, 1800, Plan of East and West Heaton -Newcastle Library Local Studies, 12.1
C188, Surveys, 1763-84-1800, Farms in Heaton, Northumberland Records Office, ZRI, 49.1
W. Hutchinson, 1776, View of Northumberland, II, 365-6
Tithe Awards, 1841, Heaton, Northumberland Records Office, DT 227 M
S. Wrathmell, Unpublished PhD thesis, II, 407-08- Northumberland Records Office