HEDGELEY, a township in the parish of EGLINGHAM, northern division of COCIUETDALE -ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND, 9 miles (W. N. W.) from Alnwick, containing 36 inhabitants. On Hedgeley Moor, in 1463, a battle was fought between the forces of Edward IV. and a party in the service of the deposed monarch, Henry VI., in which Sir Ralph Percy was slain 5 in memory of whose bravery, a stone pillar, called Percy's Cross, was erected upon the spot, being situated a little to the north-east of the twenty-fourth mile-stone on the Morpeth and Wooler road.