GUYSON, a township in the parish of SHILBOTTLE,
eastern division of COQUETDALE ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND,
8 miles (S. by E.) from Alnwick, containing
173 inhabitants. A priory was founded here
some time in the twelfth century, by Richard Tyson, and
afterwards annexed to the abbey of Alnwick, by Eustace
Fitz-John; its revenue, in the Lincoln taxation of temporalties,
was valued at £3. 15. 4. per annum.