ALLENTON, or ALLWINTON, a parish in the western division of COOUETDALE ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND, comprising the townships of Al- Jenton, Biddleston, Borrowdon, Clennell, Fairhaugh, Farnham, Linbriggs, Netherton (North side), Netherton (South side), Peals, and Sharperton, and containing 900 inhabitants, of which number, 106 are in the township of Allenton, 19 miles (W. by S.) from Alnwick. The living is a perpetual curacy, with that of Hallystone, in the archdeaconry of Northumberland, and diocese of Durham, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Durham. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. The river Coquet pursues a winding course through this parish, and joins the Alwine, from which latter the name of Allwinton is derived. A free school, in which twenty-six children are instructed, is endowed with about £28 per annum, arising from a donation of £350 by Mr. John Dixon, and some minor benefactions. Here was formerly an hospital, belonging to the convent at Hallystone. On the south side of the Coquet are vestiges of an ancient structure, called Barrow Peel, to the west of which is Ridl.ee Cairn hill, supposed to have been burial-places of the ancient Britons.