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Bebside (Blyth)

NZ 270810. Deserted medieval village at Bebside. (Nothing visible on available aerial photographs (RAF 1958). (1)

Bebside, apart from pockets of modern development, now consists of two dispersed farms, together with Bebside Mill and Bebside Hall, none of which has traces of depopulation in the vicinity. Any village was probably of the non-nucleated type. (2)

Shrunken medieval village, partly a monastic grange settlement; partly covered by farm buildings. No earthworks seen. Tynemouth Priory was granted a moiety of the vill of Bebside in the 12th century. By 1294 the monastic holding seems to have been converted entirely to a grange farm. Before the Dissolution the Priory had acquired the whole of the township. By the 19th century only the hall-farm and a few cottages remained on the site of the grange.
Bebside was a vill until the division of the estate and the creation of the grange. It is unknown whether any substantial settlement survived its conversion to a grange.
The County History records Bebside Hall as standing on the site of the grange as evidenced by the survival of three sides of a moat. No village earthworks could be seen from the air. (3)

Bebside deserted medieval village. (4)
N11754
Post Medieval (1540 to 1901)
Medieval (1066 to 1540)
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1971; D Smith
DESK BASED ASSESSMENT, Hathery Lane: Archaeological Assessment 1992; The Archaeological Practice


Source of Reference
Local History of Blyth

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