Axwell village

HER Number:
627

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Axwell village

Place:
Axwell

Map Sheet:
NZ16SE

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Settlement

Site Type: Specific:
Deserted Settlement

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C14

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
The earliest reference to a settlement at Axwell is apparently in 1362 when the manor was held of the see of Durham by Wm de Birtley. It passed through various owners - in 1604 John Ogle conveyed the capital messuage or Axwell house, and land, to Roger Lumley; in 1629 it was sold to John Clavering of Newcastle. Bourn suggested that the old manor house of Old Axwell was close to the now demolished farm of that name, and that the older building may have been demolished c. 1740.

Easting:
192

Northing:
601

Grid Reference:
NZ192601

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 627 >> W. Greenwell, ed. 1856, Bishop Hatfield's Survey, Surtees Society, 32, p. 93 R. Surtees, 1820, History of...Durham, Vol. II, pp. 247-50 E. Mackenzie & M. Ross, 1834, View of...Durham, Vol. I, pp. 199-200 W. Bourn, 1892, Axwell and the Claverings, Transactions Vale of Derwent Naturalists' Field Club, Vol. II, pp. 48-54 W. Bourn, 1893, Whickham Parish, p. 56 Dept. Pal. & Dip. Durham, Tithe Awards, 1840, Whickham Parish Dept. Pal. & Dip. Durham, 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1:2,500 scale, Durham VI.6 B.K. Roberts & D. Austin, 1975, A Preliminary Check-List of Rural Clusters in County Durham, p. 38