DENWICK, a hamlet in that part of the parish of
ALNWICK which is in the southern division of BAMBROUGH
ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND, 1
mile (E. by N.) from Ahrwiek, with which the population
is returned. There is a handsome arch, erected
by the Duke of Northumberland, over which a private
road passes into a field, called White Cross Howl, from
a cross which formerly stood there, and where persons
dying of the plague, which once infected this place,
were buried.