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Buckton (Kyloe)

Buckton was a member of the Bishop of Durham's estate of Islandshire. 1560/1 survey: 12 husbandlands, 12 cottages, 20 tenants each with a tenement and 16 acres of arable land. 1580: 12 tenants equipped for Border Service. 1666 Hearth Tax: 29 householders. 1711 Haggerston rental: one tenant. 1757: three leases.
Earthworks and ridge and furrow cultivation seen around the farm. Visible on aerial photographs. (1)

Buckton (NU 082385) Photographed from the air in 1980, revealed pattern of tofts and the sequence of later medieval and post-medieval ploughing. (2)

The placename 'Buckton' suggests the vill raised deer. It was a dependency in drengage of Fenwick in 1210 and a dependency owing works to Fenwick. (3)
N3752
Post Medieval (1540 to 1901)
Medieval (1066 to 1540)
FIELD SURVEY, Deserted Medieval Villages of North Northumberland 1978; P J Dixon


Source of Reference
Local History of Kyloe

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