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| Convent | Abbey (SITE OF) | White’s Directory | 1 1/2 Chains South | The Site of an ancient nunnery, there | ||
| (Site of) | Abbey (SITE OF) | Mr. H. Whitfield | of Lambley | |||
| Abbey (SITE OF) | Mr. Brown | "MacKenzie’s History" gives the following | ||||
| "Convent" | Hodgsons Hist. of Northumberland | Here was anciently a small | ||||
| "Convent" | Hutchinson Hist. of Northumberland | house of Benedictine nuns. It is un- | ||||
| Certain who was its founder. King John, | ||||||
| in 1200, Confirmed a grant of | ||||||
| Adam de Tindale, and Heloise his | ||||||
| "It had a small <u>Convent</u> of Nuns." | wife, to God, St Mary, St Patrick | |||||
| Hodgson Hist. of Northumberland | and the nuns of Lambley of right of | |||||
| pasturage on both sides of the Tyne" | ||||||
| "Here was formerly a House for Benedictine Nuns | See White’s Directory for "Abbey" the local | |||||
| dedicated to God St Mary & St Patrick the scite of the | tradition is that a great Flood of the | |||||
| <u>Convent</u> is not now to be discovered" | South Tyne swept away this ancient building | |||||
| Hutchinsons View of | ||||||
| Northumberland | ||||||
| George Davison Junr Civil Assistant | ||||||
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