The Gatehouse website record for Chesterwood Farmhouse

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

One of a number of bastles in small group forming hamlet (5 according to RCHME report, Dodds can only safely count 3, a local newspaper claimed 13 originally, SMR gives details of 7 bastles.). The original part of Chesterwood Farmhouse may have been a bastle. It has one huge upstanding boulder in the plinth at the north east corner and the walls are at least 0.9m thick. When the house was renovated some years ago an upper doorway was seen in the south wall as well as evidence that the walls had been heightened by 0.6m or so, to the present level. The Chesterwood group of bastles could be considered to amount to a defended village.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NY82996517

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 16327
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is N7593 '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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