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Haydon in Northumberland County England History and GeographyHAYDON, a chapelry in the parish of WARDEN, north-western division of TINDALE ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND, 6 miles (W.) from Hexham, containing 358 inhabitants. The village of Haydon-Bridge, situated on both sides of the South Tyne river, is in this chapelry. The chapel was built in 1797, and is dedicated to St. Cuthbert. There is a place of worship for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists. Edward III., in 1344, granted permission to Anthony, Lord Lucy, then owner of the manor, to hold a weekly market here on Tuesday, and an annual fair on St. Mary Magdalene's day, and the three following days, both which have fallen into disuse. The Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital are at present proprietors of a considerable part of the chapelry, and have recently erected a small building, with suitable offices, for the receiver of their revenues. A free school and twenty almshouses were founded and endowed by the Rev. John Shaftoe, in 1685, and school-rooms, dwellings for the masters, and apartments for twenty almspeople born in the chapelry, were erected; each of the pensioners receives two shillings and sixpence and a supply of coal weekly. The school is extensively endowed, and about one hundred and forty boys and ninety girls, resident in the chapelry of Haydon, or in the constablewick of Wood-Shields, are educated: the salaries of the teachers are discretional with the trustees, but that of the senior master must be at least £250; the present stipends are £64 and £63 to the two ushers, and £30 to the mistress. The ruins of the old chapel are situated about a mile north of the bridge. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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