ROCK, a chapelry in the parish of EMBLETON, southern division of BAMBROUGH ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND, 4 miles (N.N.E.) from Alnwick, containing 185 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Northumberland, and diocese of Durham, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £800 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Embleton. The chapel is dedicated to St. Philip and St. James. Here is an endowed free school, with an income of about £7 per annum, for which and small quarterages from the parents, twenty children receive instruction.