Marley village

HER Number:
502

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Marley village

Place:
Marley

Map Sheet:
NZ15NE

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Village

Site Type: Specific:
Shrunken village

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C12

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
The earliest reference to Marley is in Boldon Buke (1183 survey of land belonging to the Bishop of Durham, Hugh du Puiset), where Merleia is recorded as rendering 1 mark, and attending the great chase with one greyhound, but being free of other services. In 1384, with the manors of Gibside and Hedley, it left the first Merley family, but in 1415 reverted to the second, who held Gibside (and hence Marley) until 1540. The estate eventually passed to the Earls of Strathmore. There is no medieval information about the village which is traditionally sited at High Marley Hill.

Easting:
195

Northing:
577

Grid Reference:
NZ195577

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 502 >> W. Greenwell, ed. 1852, Boldon Buke, Surtees Society, Vol. 25, pp. 33, 67 W. Greenwell,ed. 1857, Bishop Hatfield's Survey, Surtees Society,Vol. 32, pp. 117-118 R. Surtees, 1820, History of...Durham, Vol. II, pp. 253, 256 W. Bourn, 1893, Whickham Parish, pp. 83-4 B.K. Roberts & D. Austin, 1975, A Preliminary Check-List of Rural Clusters in County Durham, p. 33