AMBLE, a township in that part of the parish of
WARKWORTH which is in the eastern division of MORPETH
ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND, 9 miles
(S.E.) from AInwick, containing 197 inhabitants. There
are valuable and extensive mines of coal in this township.
The village is pleasantly situated on an eminence
near the mouth of the river Coquet, and commands an
extensive view of the sea: it was anciently of much
greater importance, as is evident from the discovery of
circular foundations of houses, of unhewn and uncemented
stones, of British origin, and of Roman coins;
a paved causeway was also discovered, a few years
since, extending in a direction towards the old bed of
the Coquet. Here was anciently a monastery, subordinate
to Tynemouth priory, near the ruins of which
several human bones were found a few years ago.