HAYDON, a chapelry in the parish of WARDEN,
north-western division of TINDALE ward, county of
NORTHUMBERLAND, 6 miles (W.) from Hexham, containing
358 inhabitants. The village of Haydon-
Bridge, situated on both sides of the South Tyne
river, is in this chapelry. The chapel was built in
1797, and is dedicated to St. Cuthbert. There is a
place of worship for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists."
Edward III., in 1344, granted permission to
Anthony, Lord  Lucy, then owner of the manor, to
hold a weekly market here on Tuesday, and an annual
fair on St. Mary Magdalene's day, and the three following
days, both which have fallen into disuse. The Commissioners
of Greenwich Hospital are at present proprietors
of a considerable part of the chapelry, and have recently
erected a small building, with suitable offices, for
the receiver of their revenues. A free school and twenty
ahnshouses were founded and endowed by the Rev. John
Shaftoe, in l685,and school-rooms,dwellings for the masters,
and apartments for twenty almspeople born in the
chapelry, were erected; each of the pensioners receives
two shillings and sixpence and a supply of coal weekly.
The school is extensively endowed, and about one hundred
and forty boys and ninety girls, resident in the
chapelry of Haydon, or in the constablewick of Wood-
Shields, are educated: the salaries of the teachers are
discretional with the trustees, but that of the senior
master must be at least £250; the present stipends
are £64 and £63 to the two ushers, and £30 to the
mistress. The ruins of the old chapel are situated
about a mile north of the bridge.