North Biddick village

HER Number:
363

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
North Biddick village

Place:
North Biddick

Map Sheet:
NZ35NW

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Settlement

Site Type: Specific:
Deserted Settlement

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C14

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Since it is not clear in Boldon Buke (1183 survey of land belonging to the Bishop of Durham, Hugh du Puiset) which of the Biddicks, North or South, is meant, the first certain reference to North Biddick is in Hatfield's Survey in the 14th century, where it is described as a vill held by William de Hilton by one-sixth part of a knight's fee and 53s 4d p.a. By the 15th century the "manor of Bydick near Washington" belonged to the Hilton family of Hilton Castle, and remained with them into the 18th century. On the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map (c. 1860) North Biddick is the settlement on the bank of the Wear beside Worm Hill.

Easting:
308

Northing:
555

Grid Reference:
NZ308555

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 363 >> W. Greenwell, ed. 1852, Boldon Buke, Surtees Society, 25, p. 48 W. Greenwell, ed. 1856, Bishop Hatfield's Survey, Surtees Society, 32, pp. 82-3 W. Hutchinson, 1787, History of...Durham, Vol. II, pp. 493, 619n, 683n R. Surtees, 1820, History of...Durham, Vol. II, p. 48 1750, North Biddick estate, TWCMS B8183 -Sunderland Museum Dept. Pal. & Dip. Durham, Ordnance Survey maps, 1857, 1st ed. 1:2500, XIII.3 B.K. Roberts & D. Austin, 1975, A Preliminary Check-List of Rural Clusters in County Durham, p. 38