Horton Grange (Stannington)
NZ 190757. Deserted medieval village at Horton Grange. (1)
Horton Grange (once a Grange of Newminster abbey - NCH 12 1926 553) - is a farmstead at NZ 19207590. The only visible evidences of depopulation (on the ground or on available aerial photographs - RAF 1958) are disturbances in a small area centred at NZ 19307590 and vague traces of building steading at NZ 19107585; but these are most likely associated with the Monastic Grange. (2)
The vill of Horton was granted by Roger Bertram I to Newminster Abbey c.1160. No information about the population size in the Middle Ages has been found.
The Dissolution survey recorded eight tenements in the estate. In 1547 the Crown granted the estate to the Carr family. The tenants were allowed to purchase their holdings at the end of the 16th century. In 1663 there were six rate-paying freeholders. In 1745 the manor comprised two messuages and a rent issuing from five farmholds. Two farmsteads were shown on a plan of 1840, along with a third where the farmstead had been moved southwards, and a number of cottages.
No earthworks seen during fieldwork. (3)
General association with HER 11070. (4)
Horton Grange (once a Grange of Newminster abbey - NCH 12 1926 553) - is a farmstead at NZ 19207590. The only visible evidences of depopulation (on the ground or on available aerial photographs - RAF 1958) are disturbances in a small area centred at NZ 19307590 and vague traces of building steading at NZ 19107585; but these are most likely associated with the Monastic Grange. (2)
The vill of Horton was granted by Roger Bertram I to Newminster Abbey c.1160. No information about the population size in the Middle Ages has been found.
The Dissolution survey recorded eight tenements in the estate. In 1547 the Crown granted the estate to the Carr family. The tenants were allowed to purchase their holdings at the end of the 16th century. In 1663 there were six rate-paying freeholders. In 1745 the manor comprised two messuages and a rent issuing from five farmholds. Two farmsteads were shown on a plan of 1840, along with a third where the farmstead had been moved southwards, and a number of cottages.
No earthworks seen during fieldwork. (3)
General association with HER 11070. (4)
N10948
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1968; B H Pritchard
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