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| Linnels | Linolds | Rent Receipts | About 32 chains N.W. | A very good farm house with outhouses | ||
| Linnels | Hutchinsons History | of Dipton Wood | offices & attached Linolds appears to have | |||
| Linnels | MacKenzies History | been the former mode of spelling that name | ||||
| Linnels | Whellan’s Directory | but the general adopted mode at present | ||||
| Linnels | White’s Directory | is Linnels | ||||
| Linolds | List of Co Voters | |||||
| Hexham Levels | Hexham Levels | Hutchinsons History | About 20 chains SW | "The Battle of Hexham Levels | ||
| Site of Battle | Hexham Levels | MacKenzies History | of the Linnels | |||
| between the Yorkists and Lancastrians | Hexham Levels | Whellan’s Directory | for some time decided the important contest of | |||
| 1463 | the rival roses Henry VI his Queen Prince Edward and | |||||
| their allies the French nobles with an army composed of | ||||||
| French Scottish and Northumbrian Soldiers under the | ||||||
| command of the Earl of Somerset were encamped near the | ||||||
| Linnels and awaited the advance of their enemies | ||||||
| Lord Montague commander of the followers of the white rose | ||||||
| or Yorkists having gained the battle of Hedgeley | ||||||
| Moor immediately marched towards Hexham | ||||||
| the contest took place on 14th May 1463 and | ||||||
| after a short but Sanguinary battle victory | ||||||
| declared for the army of Edward and Henry | ||||||
| made his escape" | ||||||
| Felix Gillespie Civil Assistant |
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