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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Northumberland => Topic started by: Pete E on Friday 04 July 25 13:13 BST (UK)
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I have a number of relatives who lived at, Low Dog Kennel Widdrington in the mid to late 1700's. I have identified where it used to be, but nothing now remains. It was located in the bottom left corner of the field behind what is now the URC church. There appears to be a building concerned with the wind farm just below the location. I was wondering if anyone had any information on the Low Dog Kennel and enlighten me as to its history, use etc?
Many thanks
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16.0&lat=55.25524&lon=-1.59905&layers=257&b=ESRIWorld&o=100
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Maybe find a copy of this book? https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Goodwife_Hot_and_Others/R14nAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Low+Dog+Kennel+near+Widdrington%22&dq=%22Low+Dog+Kennel+near+Widdrington%22&printsec=frontcover
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See page 59 of this old issue of NDFHS magazine. I have not checked Cheshire archives to see if they still have the documents
https://www.ndfhs.org.uk/pdfs/Vol-8-No-3.pdf
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Maybe find a copy of this book? https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Goodwife_Hot_and_Others/R14nAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Low+Dog+Kennel+near+Widdrington%22&dq=%22Low+Dog+Kennel+near+Widdrington%22&printsec=frontcover
This is the full paragraph from my copy of Godwife Hot:
A small ditch would be a Channel or Kennel. The former is to be found in Channelwell House in Hexhamshire, whose name probably denotes a Stream running through a Channel. A Kennel is an alternative form of the same word meaning, in particular a Gutter. Thus in the days when refuse and sewage were thrown into the city streets it was into the Kennels at the saide that they found their way, for there were no pavements. Low Dog Kennel near Widdrington, then, would have been the Channel where Docks (or possibly Water lilies) grew.
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See page 59 of this old issue of NDFHS magazine. I have not checked Cheshire archives to see if they still have the documents
https://www.ndfhs.org.uk/pdfs/Vol-8-No-3.pdf
Cheshire Archives
https://catalogue.cheshirearchives.org.uk/records/DVE/2/8/6
Northumberland Archives
NRO 05497/1
https://calmview.northumberland.gov.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=NRO+05497%2f1&pos=4
NRO 05497/2
https://calmview.northumberland.gov.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=NRO+05497%2f2&pos=5
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Tithe Apportionment 6 Nov 1844
Plot 50, Lower Dog Kennel Farm, Landowner The Right Honourable George John Warren, Lord Vernon, Occupier Henry Annett
Statute Measure 145 Acres 3 Roods 31 Perches
Exempt from all Tithes by prescription
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It was still in existence as a farm house in 1860 when the Ordnance Survey Name Books were being compiled
https://namebooks.org.uk/browse/main/?OSref=432&Page=7.0&terms=dog+kennel&case=i&words=y
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Here it is (along with High Dog Kennel) on Fryer's 1820 map (you need to scroll down a little to see it) https://communities.northumberland.gov.uk/007344FS.htm
On Greenwood's 1830 map it's just called Dog Kennel https://communities.northumberland.gov.uk/007344FS.htm
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Newcastle Chronicle, 16 Nov 1782
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Looks like some of the building had gone between 1892- 1915 - https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.0&lat=55.25264&lon=-1.60565&layers=168&b=ESRIWorld&o=100
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Wow, My cup runneth over :D! That is a lot of information you have all kindly provided in so quick a time. I've had a quick scan and already I'm learning new things; a kennel is a gutter, who knew, not me? Is that where we get canal from? I believe you have all set me up for a good few hours of cheerful research. Thank you all.
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I know it's not in Northumberland, :(but the best example of Kennels for drainage in a town I can think of is in Helston. My husband is from there and refers to them as Kennels.
https://museumofcornishlife.co.uk/projects/wendron-leats-and-helston-kennels/
Etymology of canal
https://www.etymonline.com/word/canal
The word “kennel,” a gutter, a drain in a street or road, is a corruption of the Middle English canel, cannel, in modern English “channel,” from Latin canalis, canal. So a similar origin.
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:D Thank you fiddlerslass appreciated. Don't you just love etymology?
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The Kennel here is a stream which rises in Grange Wood to the SW of the farm, where there are several tributaries flowing northwards. Those in the eastern part of the wood converge to form a stream flowing NE towards Low Dog Kennel in an artificially straight channel. It turns NW at the farm and meets another "kennel" just before Main Bridge, then becomes Steads Burn. The other kennel rises in the western part of Grange Wood and forms the woodland boundary before turning north in another artificially straight channel. These kennels appear to have been created centuries earlier to manage the drainage when the land was enclosed from larger woodlands and converted to farmland. The addition of Dog to the name is probably a play on words.