CORNHILL, a chapelry in the parish of NORHAM,
otherwise Norhamshire, county palatine of DURHAM,
11 mile (E. by S.) from Coldstream, containing 863
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual'curacy, in the
archdeaconry of Northumberland, and diocese of Durham,
endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £400
royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Norham.
The chapel, dedicated to St. Helen, was rebuilt
in 1751, when a stone coffin, containing fragments
of a human skeleton, and two urns of coarse earthenware,
were found: in an adjoining wood is a well called
St. Helen's Well, the water of which'is serviceable in
scorbutic and gravel complaints, but is not much used;
a neat cold bath has been erected near it. A fair is held
annually on the 6th of December. The castle was demolished
by the Scots in 1385, and again in 1549, when
a considerable booty fell into their possession: the remains
consist of a tower surrounded by a ditch. Here
are some medicinal springs. To the south-east is an
encampment of unusual construction, the outworks
having been mistaken for tumuli, the history of which
has baffled the enquiries of different writers; and a quarter
of a mile west is another large camp, the most remarkable
north of the wall for variety and extent.