Mason village

HER Number:
1333

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Mason village

Place:
Mason

Map Sheet:
NZ27SW

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Village

Site Type: Specific:
Shrunken Village

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C12

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
The vill of "Merdesfen" was first mentioned in 1190 when a toft there was granted by Sir Roger Bertram to St. Batholomew's Nunnery. There were 8 taxpayers in 1296, 10 in 1312. In 1331 there were 7 occupied tenements, in 1335 24 tofts (probably abandoned). Possibly the village, as such, did not survive the Middle Ages, and its site was thereafter marked by the surviving North Farm and the former South Farm, at the north-east end of Dinnington.

Easting:
208

Northing:
735

Grid Reference:
NZ208735

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1333 >> W.S. Gibson, 1846, The History of the Monastery at Tynemouth, I, 74, 145-6; II, xxxvi M.H. Dodds, 1926, Mason Township, Northumberland County History, XII, 471-5 Tithe Awards, 1840, Mason, Northumberland Records Office,DT 314 S S. Wrathmell, Unpublished PhD thesis, II, 430-1 1769, Mason, Northumberland Records Office, Watson Coll, 20.13 D. Maddison, 1830, A Historical and Descriptive Account of Prestwick Carr and its Environ, p 38 - 46