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Originally Posted by Coquet
Yes the Priory of Tynemouth were the historical landowners, 'Manor of Amble' and Hauxley. Term must have still been used to describe the area in more recent times.
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I had a look in my old faithful encyclopedia, almost as old as the old manorial system
Main feature of the manor was the manorial court, mainly concerned with civil business especially manorial holdings.....from which comes copyhold. The manors themselves declined in the Middle Ages but the courts and copyholds survived into the C20th.