Low Dog Kennel Widdrington

[Pete E]

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

[ShaunJ]

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

[fiddlerslass]

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

[JenB]

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.

[Tickettyboo]

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

Boo

[hanes teulu]

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

[JenB]

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

[JenB]

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

[hanes teulu]

Newcastle Chronicle, 16 Nov 1782