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| Bowsden | Bowsden | Wm Lowrey Esqr. | On Sheet | A small straggling village, situated | ||
| RS. Bolam | 11.5 | within the township of Bowsden, and | ||||
| Revd. Geo. Jenkinson | about one and a half miles North-West | |||||
| of Lowick. It comprises four farmhouses, | ||||||
| two public houses, Post Office, School, | ||||||
| and a number of cottages occupied | ||||||
| chiefly by labourers; the property | ||||||
| of H.K.Gregson Esqr. & others. | ||||||
| MacKenzie’s History Vol. 1 | In MacKenzie’s History of Northumberland, | |||||
| Vol. 1, P.381, the following appears – "In the | ||||||
| year 1800, as some workmen were levelling a barrow | ||||||
| about a quarter of a mile north from Bowsden | ||||||
| they found two urns inserted upon broad | ||||||
| flags, and containing bones which appeared to | ||||||
| have been partially burnt. Previous to this, | ||||||
| another funeral urn was turned up at Bowsden | ||||||
| Hollins" – The Sites where these Antiquities were | ||||||
| found can not now be pointed out. | ||||||
| John Callanan 2nd Corpl RE |
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