BINGFIELD, a chapelry in the parish of ST-JOHN
LEE, southern division of TINDALE ward, county of
NORTHUMBERLAND, 6 miles (N.N.E.) from Hexham,
containing 111 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, within the jurisdiction of the peculiar court of
Hexham, belonging to the Archbishop of York, endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £600 royal bounty,
and in the patronage of Col. and Mrs. Beaumont. The
chapel is dedicated to St. Mary. A school here is enr
dowed  with £10 per annum. Near the Erring-bourn,
a little northward from the village, there is a mineral
spring, the water of which is so powerful, that neither
fish nor any kind of insect can live in it.