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| Wark Bridge | Wark Bridge | Mr Storey | 12 Chains East of | A good substantial Wooden | ||
| Wark Bridge | Mr Dodd | the Post office | Bridge supported on Stone | |||
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| Wark Bridge | Thomas Dodd Esqr. | Subscription. by the inhabitants | ||||
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| Wark | Wark | Whites Directory | West Bank of the | A small Village beautifully situated on the west | ||
| Wark | List of County Voters | River North Tyne | bank of the North Tyne, it is very clean and contains | |||
| Wark | Thomas Dodd. Esqr. | several good houses. besides the Parish Church there | ||||
| are Chapels for the Presbyterians & Methodists. The | ||||||
| inhabitants are principally agriculturists | ||||||
| The Green | The Green | Thomas Dodd Esqr. | 4 chains east of | A small open space common to the Villagers and used | ||
| The Green | Mr. A Storey. | the Post Office | principally for a Playground for the Children, while | |||
| The Green | Mr. J Charlton. | the workmen were levelling this place they discovered a | ||||
| large subterranean building which had neither doors | ||||||
| or Windows. The Walls were very thick and it is supposed to | ||||||
| have been a place where criminals were confined after | ||||||
| their trial at the adjacent Manorial court held on the | ||||||
| Moot Hill they would be lowered into it thro a hatchway | ||||||
| this place must have been of great extent as its stones nearly | ||||||
| built the whole of the houses on east side of The Green. | ||||||
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