LAMBLEY, a parish in the western division of TINDALE
ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND, comprising
the townships of Ash-Holm and Lambley, and containing
261 inhabitants, of which number, 139 are in
the township of Lambley, 6 miles (S. "W. by S.) from
Haltwhistle. The living is a donative, in the patronage
of R. L. Allgood, Esq. The church has been recently
repaired by subscription. The South Tyne runs through
the parish. Here are very productive mines of fine
coal. An abbey of Benedictine nuns, in honour of St.
Patrick, was founded here, in the reign of John, by the
king, or by Adam de Tindale, which, at the dissolution,
had a revenue of £5. 15. 8.: in 1296 this monastery
was burned, and the neighbourhood laid waste, by the
Scots. On Castle hill, the site of an old fortress, are
vestiges of a deep moat, and lower down the river have
been discovered some large coffins of oak, black as jet.