Description

Hallington, a township in St John Lee parish, Northumberland, near the Roman wall, 10 miles NNE of Hexham. It has a post office under Corbridge (R.S.O.); money order office, Matfen; telegraph office, Capheaton. Acreage, 1713;. population, 76. This place was anciently called Halydon; it disputes with St Oswalds being the Hefon Felth or Heaven Field of Bede, so called from a famous battle won by King Oswald in 675; it belonged anciently to Hexham priory, and it had a beacon tower on a curious hill called Hangingshaws. Sir J. M. Errington, Bart., is lord of the manor.