[Area NY 99006465] 'The ground between the heads of the two watercourses is occupied by allotment gardens now called the Chains, but more anciently the Hall Walls, a name derived from the Manor Hall of the lords of Corbridge in the 13th and 14th centuries which occupied this site.'

An inquisition of 1352 mentions a waste piece of ground called the 'auld-halles', and since it contains no reference to a manor-hall, this may be taken as referring to Robert Fitzroger's new hall, and not the earlier building. It occupied the ground between St Helen's Street and St Helen's Lane now forming allotment gardens. 'The site of the manor, called Hallgarth' is mentioned in Cartington's rental of 1500, Clarke's survey of 1663 mentions 'two stone gavells called by the name of ye Hall Walls' and nearby !two stone gavells supposed to be the remainders of the ruins of an ancient chappell!. [NY 96 SE 11, St Helen's Church]. (1)

[NY 9891 6457] 'At this point I understand that a fragment of a gable wall remains, and is probably the remnant of the Manor House. I have not seen it myself'. (2)

Hedley's site is now occupied by a Police Station. There is no trace of the gable wall. (3)

Excavation and watching briefs undertaken in 1992-4 behind the Parish Hall in St Helen's Street revealed some walls, probably medieval, representing a series of buildings aligned east-west which may be parts of the manor house and/or the chapel. (4a)

General association with HER 8993 (St Helen's Chapel) (4)