Farringdon monastic grange

HER Number:
222

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Farringdon monastic grange

Place:
Farringdon

Map Sheet:
NZ35SE

Class:
Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad:
Land Use

Site Type: Specific:
Grange

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Farendon-grange is listed as one of the properties of Hexham Priory, its boundaries described in great detail, suggesting that most of its land was in a single block between the vills of Herrington (sic) and Silksworth, but in the territory of the latter. Also mentioned are a windmill, oven and brewhouse. Its precise location is unknown.

Easting:
367

Northing:
535

Grid Reference:
NZ367535

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 222 >> J. Raine, ed. 1865, The Priory of Hexham, Surtees Society,46 (for 1864), pp. 62-64 R. Surtees, 1972, History of...the County Palatine of Durham, I (1816), p. 247; AAG Archaeology, 2020 Desk-based assessment Land North of City Way, East Herrington; Ordnance Survey, 1854, 1st edition 1:2500, Durham XIV.5 -Sunderland Library Local Studies