LEE (ST-JOHN), a parish in the southern division of TINDALE ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND, 1 mile (N. N. E.) from Hexham, comprising the chapelries of Bingfield and Wall, and the townships of West Acomb, Anick, Anick-Grange, Cocklaw, Fallowfield, Hallington, Portgate, and Sandhoe, and containing 1952 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Archbishop of York, for the Peculiar Court of Hexhamshire, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of T. R. Beaumont, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. John of Beverley, and situated on a fine eminence on the northern side of the river Tyne, was anciently noted for an annual procession made to it by the monks of Hexham. There are mines of coal and lead in the parish.