Leper Hospital (West Bedlington)
Lesser Hospital (Net income under £50) at Bedlington. Dissolved or moved elsewhere before AD 1500. [This site is not shown on OS Monastic Britain Map 1950]. (1)
Leper Hospital founded at Bedlington before AD 1203. Dedication and date of dissolution not known. (2)
I have no knowledge of the location of this hospital. (3)
[Marginal] No further information discovered regarding the site of this hospital. Tithe maps of 1852 were examined but no significant field names were discovered. (4)
In his historical and traditional sketch of Bedlington, Johnson Morpeth states that a monastery stood in the Demesne field where the infant school now stands. Our grandfathers have told of ruins of fine arches there and human bones have also been found nearby. The Monastery, if there was one, must have been a cell where Monks broken in health, or worn by their strict monastic discipline came to recover. (5)
[Area centred at NZ 25958179] Hospital sited from info in T5 in conjunction with field name. No trace of antiquity now to be seen. Site now built up. (6)
Leper Hospital founded at Bedlington before AD 1203. Dedication and date of dissolution not known. (2)
I have no knowledge of the location of this hospital. (3)
[Marginal] No further information discovered regarding the site of this hospital. Tithe maps of 1852 were examined but no significant field names were discovered. (4)
In his historical and traditional sketch of Bedlington, Johnson Morpeth states that a monastery stood in the Demesne field where the infant school now stands. Our grandfathers have told of ruins of fine arches there and human bones have also been found nearby. The Monastery, if there was one, must have been a cell where Monks broken in health, or worn by their strict monastic discipline came to recover. (5)
[Area centred at NZ 25958179] Hospital sited from info in T5 in conjunction with field name. No trace of antiquity now to be seen. Site now built up. (6)
N11750
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1954; F H Colquhoun
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1954; E Geary
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1954; E Geary
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