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Originally Posted by janwhin
I'm not sure to be honest, although I would have thought they could be different. As I understand it, a township was a particularly northern definition, designed to break down large parishes into bit size pieces. So Amble and Hauxley would have been townships within Warkworth Parish.
A manor is an estate held under a landowner.
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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.