The Gatehouse website record for Bebside Old Hall

In the civil parish of Blyth Valley. In the historic county of Northumberland (Modern Authority of Northumberland, 1974 county of Northumberland).

As one of the manors that made up the liberty of Tynemouth, Bebside possessed a manorial hall, grange, and demesne farm, and formed an administration & economic centre for the working of the monastic estates. The Pre-Reformation buildings stood on the south side of the Cowpen road, close to its junction with the road from Horton-Bedlington. Suggestions of the moat that surrounded them are to be found in the disused ditches to the East and South of Bebside Hall, and in a similar depression to the west. Within the enclosure stood the farm buildings as well as the hall, which is mentioned in 1264/5. The Pre-Reformation buildings stood on the south side of the Cowpen road, close to its junction with the road from Horton-Bedlington. Traces of the moat that surrounded them are to be found in the disused ditches to the east and south of Bebside Hall, and in a similar depression to the west. Within the enclosure stood the farm buildings as well as the hall, which is mentioned in 1264/5. After the Dissolution of Tynemouth in 1539 Bebside was bought by John Ogle of Newsham. He or his successor replaces the manorial hall with a new hall 100ft long incorporating a tower measuring 30ft by 20ft. This was demolished in 1853.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NZ270809

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 25385
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is N11745 'grey' literature, such as watching brief reports, held by H.E.R.s is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded in this website.

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