Fatherless Field (Elliscope) Farm

HER Number

960

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Fatherless Field (Elliscope) Farm

Place

West Boldon

Map Sheet

NZ35NW

Class

Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad

Farm

Site Type: Specific

Farm

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

In bishop Bury's time (1340s)... Allan Gategant held certain lands there (West Boldon) called Fadreless Houses, held in capite by homage and fealty. Surtees also noted this, saying another small freehold, a messuage and carucate of land on Boldon moor, called Faderles House, passed for a few descents in the family of Gategang. By 1381 it was held by Peter del Hay, Faderlesfield, of 46 acres, for 20s or 26s 10d. Called Fatherless Field on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, it is now Elliscope farm.

Easting

433500

Northing

559900

Grid Reference

NZ433500559900

Sources

<< HER 960 >> W. Greenwell, 1856, Bishop Hatfield's Survey, Surtees Society, 32, pp. 98-102; W. Hutchinson, 1787, History...of Durham, II, 495 and ?620-4; R. Surtees, 1820, History...of Durham, II, 59; Northern Archaeological Associates, 2014, Site south of Newcastle Road (A184) and West of A19 - Archaeological Assessment; AD Archaeology, 2021, Elliscope Farm, Follingsby Lane, West Boldon Archaeological Building Recording, report reference AD371