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Carham in Northumberland County England History and GeographyCARHAM, a parish in the western division of GLENDALE ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND, 3½ miles (W.S.W.) from Coldstream, comprising the townships of Carham with Shidlaw, Downham, Hagg, New Learmouth, West Learmouth, East Mindrim, West Mindrim, Moneylaws, Preston, Tythehill, Wark, and Wark Common, and containing 1370 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Northumberland, and diocese of Durham, and in the patronage of A. Compton, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Cuthbert. According to Leland, a battle was fought here between the Saxons and the Danes, in which eleven bishops and two English counts were slain. In 1018, it was the scene of a sanguinary contest between the English and the Scotch, in which the latter were victorious; the loss of the English was extremely great, and the event, according to some authors, is stated to have produced such an impression on Aldun, Bishop of Durham, that he died of a broken heart. Another contest occurred in 1370, between the same people, respectively under the ¦ command of Sir John Lelburn, and Sir John Gordon, in which the Scots, after a severe and arduous conflict, were again victorious, the English general, Sir John Lelburn, and his brother, having been made prisoners. An abbey of Black canons, founded at an unknown period, as a cell to the priory of Kirkham, in Yorkshire, was burnt in the 24th of Edward I., by the Scots under Wallace, whose encampment in a neighbouring field has bestowed on it the name of Camp-field. The village is pleasantly situated on the south bank of the Tweed, several plantations of young forest trees surrounding it; and there is a beautiful and extensive prospect into Scotland, from a hamlet situated on a hill, called Shidlaw, on the south side. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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