National Gazetteer (1868) - Haydon

"HAYDON, (or Haydon-bridge), a chapelry in the parish of Warden, S. division of Tynedale ward, county Northumberland, 7½ miles W. of Hexham, its post town, 28 from Newcastle, and 31½ from Carlisle. It is a station on the Newcastle and Carlisle railway. Haydon-Bridge is an extensive village situated on both banks of the South Tyne river, which is crossed hereby a stone bridge of six arches, in connection with the Newcastle, Carlisle, and Allendale turnpike roads. The chapelry contains the hamlets of Brockenheugh, Lipwood, Ellerington, Chesterwood, Langley, and Deanrow. Haydon was formerly a market town under the lords Lucy, then owners of the manor, which now belongs to Greenwich Hospital. The Haydon Bridge Iron Company have an extensive brass and iron foundry here. There are smelting works, and several lead mines, both here and at Grindon. The land is chiefly arable. The living is a curacy annexed to the vicarage* of Warden, in the diocese of Durham. The chapel, dedicated to St. Cuthbert, is a stone structure with a square tower. The register dates from 1644. This chapel was built in 1797, in lieu of the old one, which is situated about 1 mile N. of the village, and is used at times for interments. Here are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, Primitive and Reformed Methodists, also almshouses for twenty poor persons, founded in 1685 by the Rev. John Shaftoe. Each inmate receives 3s., an allowance of coals, and a coat or gown yearly. There is a free grammar school, likewise founded by the Rev. John Shaftoe in 1685, for the education of children of both sexes belonging to this chapelry and to Woodshields. There is also a National school in the, village of Haydon-Bridge. J. Martin, the painter, was born here in 1789.

"BROKENHAUGH, a quarter in the parochial chapelry of Haydon, and parish of Warden, Tynedale ward, in the county of Northumberland, 5 miles to the W. of Hexham."

"DEAN ROW, a quarter in the chapelry of Haydon, parish of Warden, in the county of Northumberland, 4 miles N.W. of Allendale, and 8 W. of Hexham. Here are remains of Staward-le-Peel Tower, which Edward Duke of York, in 1386, granted to the Friars Eremites of Hexham."

"ELLERINGTON, a quarter in the parish of Warden, county Northumberland, 4 miles W. of Hexham. It is situated near the river Tyne."

"LANGLEY CASTLE, in the parish of Warden, in county Northumberland, 6 miles S.W. of Hexham. It was once a strong fortress, with walls 8 feet thick and towers 66 feet high, but is now in ruins."

"LIPWOOD, a township in the parish of Warden, ward of Tynedale, county Northumberland, 6 miles W. of Hexham. Grindon Lake is situated in the township."

"WALWICK, an extra-parochial liberty in N.W. division of Tynedale ward, county Northumberland, 6 miles N.W. of Hexham. It is the site of the Roman Cilurnum, on the western bank of the North Tyne, near the line of the great wall built by Severus, and was the station of the Ale Secunda Asturum."