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| Benwell Cottage | Benwell Cottage | Wm I. Cookson Esqr | In the Village of | An elegant Mansion with | ||
| Benwell Cottage | Mr. Liddle | Benwell, About | Outbuildings & Gardens attached | |||
| Benwell Cottage | Mr. Challoner | 23 chs. N.W. of Benwell | ||||
| House | ||||||
| Chapel | (Site of) | Wm I. Cookson Esqr | About 2 chains | The site of an Ancient domestic | ||
| (Site of) | Chapel | South of Benwell | chapel. Bourne Says "that the | |||
| (Site of) | Wm I. Harding Esqr | Tower | chapel was kept open, for the good | |||
| Chapel | of the Villagers,by Mr Shaftoe; the | |||||
| (Site of) | McKenzie’s History | Service being performed by the Curate | ||||
| Chapel | of St. John’s" – It was at length | |||||
| Chapel | White’s Directory | pulled down, it is said, in conseque[nce] | ||||
| of interupting the prospect of the | ||||||
| Mansion-house – It belonged to | ||||||
| the priors of Tynemouth | ||||||
| "Old Tower, which was anciently the residence of the Priors of | ||||||
| "Tynemouth, who had a domestic Chapel here, where a vault | ||||||
| "and a few grave stones still mark the site of its burial ground" | ||||||
| White’s Directory | ||||||
| Vol:11 P.435 | ||||||
| Grave Yard | Graveyard | Wm I. Cookson Esqr | About 9 Chains | The burial ground that was | ||
| Graveyard | Wm I. Harding | East of Benwell | Attached to the above Chapel – | |||
| Graveyard | Mr. J.S. Challoner | Cottage | A few gravestones are still to be | |||
| burial ground | White’s Directory | seen scattered about it, One of them | ||||
| Burying Ground | MacKenzie’s History | is dated so late as the year 1759 – | ||||
| The graveyard contained 1 Rood 18 perches – | ||||||
| John McMahon Civil Assistant | ||||||
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