Heworth Manor

Heworth was one of the manors of the Prior and Convent of Durham, but how they acquired it is unknown. The earliest known reference is from 1279 when it was leased out for 27 years, and was described as lying west of Colepath, from Heworth dam where Colepath begins, to the water of Tyne, with the Saltmeadows below the Haynyng. There are references to a tithe grange (1396), a grange (1401-68), and a bovaria (1344). Its location is unknown, but at least one modern researcher has equated it with Heworth Grange, shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map in the fork formed by the junction of the roads from Low Felling and High Felling (High Lane), today on the south side of the Felling Bypass and built over.