GRINDON, a township in the parish of NORHAM, otherwise Norhamshire, county palatine of DURHAM, though locally to the northward of the county of Northumberland, westward of Islandshire, 7 miles (S. W.) from Berwick, containing 173 inhabitants. There are four upright stones in memory of the chieftains slain in a battle fought at this place in 1558, between the English and the Scots, when the latter were defeated.