BYWELL (ST-ANDREW), a parish in the eastern division of TINDALE ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND, comprising the to\mships of Bearl, Broomhaugh, Biding, Stocksfield-Hallj and Styford, and containing 399 inhabitants, exclusively of one-fourth of the population of the township of Bywell St. Andrew and St. Peter, which is in this parish, but included in the return" for Bywell St. Peter.. The living is a discharged vicar^* age, -with the perpetual curacy of Shotley annexed, in the archdeaconry of Northumberland, and diocese of Durham, rated in the king's books at £3. 9. 2., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of T. W. Beaumont, Esq. The church is a small edifice with a lofty steeple. The river Tyne runs through the parish.