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List of Names
as written on the Plan
Various modes of
Spelling the same Names
Authority for those modes of
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Situation Descriptive Remarks, or other
General Observations
which may be considered of Interest
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Hexham Hexham Wrights History of Hexham 20 Miles West Hexham is a market town with
Hexham Mr Joseph Fairless of Newcastle a population of about 4600-the weekly Market
Hexham Plan of the Manor is held on Tuesday & it has also two annual
fairs – Hutchinson in his View of Northumberland
States that it "Is a place of great antiquity
Bede called it Hungustald, by the old
English Saxons it was called Hextoldesham
& some Authors (particularly Camden) [say]
it is the Axelodunum of the Romans"
The antiquities are all shown & pointed
the township of Hexham is said to be out in their proper places-
divided into four Wards or districts which Wright in his history describes it very
are only used for the election of Churchwardens properly as "an irregularly built town
the Boundaries of which are often changed the streets are narrow & almost all
they also are in detached pieces & as they could of them are formed on a descent
be but very imperfectly pointed out
the names are omitted on the OS plans
Henry Farr c/a

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