Old Burdon village

HER Number:
258

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Old Burdon village

Place:
Burdon

Map Sheet:
NZ35SE

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Settlement

Site Type: Specific:
Village

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C12

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
The earliest certain reference to Old Burdon is in Boldon Buke 1183 (a survey of land belonging to the Bishop of Durham, Hugh du Puiset) assuming it the same as the Little Burdon mentioned there. At that time it was held by John de Houghton, "(who) rendered 10s and carted wine with 4 oxen, and goes in the great chase with two greyhounds". In the 14th century Lord Nevill and partners held, as free tenants, the vill of Little Burdon. In the mid-19th century it consisted of a double courtyard farm on the west side of a north-south lane, probably much as today. In 1856 Robert Bolton was the farmer at Old Burdon.

Easting:
381

Northing:
507

Grid Reference:
NZ381507

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 258 >> W. Greenwell, ed. 1852, Boldon Buke, Surtees Society, 25, p. 47; W. Greenwell, ed. 1856, Bishop Hatfield's Survey, Surtees Society, 32, p. 145; W. Hutchinson, 1787, The History of...Durham II, p. 682; Dept. Pal. & Dip. Durham, Ordnance Survey maps, Ordnance Survey 1st ed. Durham XIV.14; William Whellan & Co, 1856, History, Topography and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham… p 615