Stanton

Footbridge over the River Font

Looking towards the Cheviots from Stanton.

Ann Hodgson

Witton Shields Tower

The Gatehouse Web Site: King writes this is a C17 domestic building, not a fortified tower. Dodds writes it is a late strong house. PastScape report it as "A bastle or fortified house, probably built in the early C17. A stone inscribed with the date 1608 and the initials N T (Nigel Thornton) is set above the door. The rear extensions were added in 1680 and the building was reduced in height by a storey circa 1914. One of the upper rooms of the house was used as a Roman Catholic chapel in the early C17. The house stands in pastureland, overlooking the dene of the Cowclose Burn on the north side, and the valley of the River Font to the south. It is a strongly constructed building of two storeys with a central stair turret and walls 1 metre thick. The rectangular building is built of stone rubble, with a slate roof." Recorded in survey of 1715 as "a large old building bellonging to Jon. Thornton, esq." SMR report that it is possible there was once a small watchtower on the western side of the roof.

High Trewitley

Witton Shields Tower

King writes this is a C17 domestic building, not a fortified tower. Dodds writes it is a late strong house. PastScape report it as "A bastle or fortified house, probably built in the early C17. A stone inscribed with the date 1608 and the initials N T (Nigel Thornton) is set above the door. The rear extensions were added in 1680 and the building was reduced in height by a storey circa 1914. One of the upper rooms of the house was used as a Roman Catholic chapel in the early C17. The house stands in pastureland, overlooking the dene of the Cowclose Burn on the north side, and the valley of the River Font to the south. It is a strongly constructed building of two storeys with a central stair turret and walls 1 metre thick. The rectangular building is built of stone rubble, with a slate roof." Recorded in survey of 1715 as "a large old building bellonging to Jon. Thornton, esq." SMR report that it is possible there was once a small watchtower on the western side of the roof.

Footbridge over the Cow Close Burn at Witton Shields

Huge Beech with 20ft Bole

High Trewitley farm

Townhead Farm, Stanton

Gallowshaw

A cattle grazing area in front of the property of Gallowshaw, which is for sale if you are interested.

Graham Horn

West of Gallowshaw

From the drive to Gallowshaw. The square is mainly flat sheep grazing land.

Graham Horn

Ploughed field at Abshield

Recently ploughed field in autumn.

Farm road from Abshields to Berryhill

Although just a farm road, carries the status of a public road, theoretically open to all traffic.

Entrance to Bide-a-Wee Cottage Gardens

The entrance and plant sales area of Bide-a-Wee Cottage Gardens Link

, an impressive and immaculately kept garden open to the public two afternoons a week.

Bide-a-Wee Cottage Gardens

Bide-a-Wee Cottage Gardens Link

, an impressive and immaculately kept garden open to the public two afternoons a week. The gardens have been developed on the site of a former quarry over the course of the last twenty five years.