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Old 11-09-2013, 05:29 PM
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I remember we mentioned the West Chevington Chapel burial ground at the beginning of this thread too. It's visible on that map. The aerial rope-way went over the corner with a pylon next to the graveyard as well.

Then there's this link indexing a 35 page paper on the archaeological dig before the opencast got started. I don't think they moved very much unfortunately.

In the ecclesiastical arrangements of Warkworth parish the inhabitants of the chapelry were never permitted to forget that they were outsiders, for in the appropriation of seats in the parish church made under faculty in 1719 not one was given to any house, hamlet, or estate in Chevington. Not unnaturally the ratepayers frequently resisted, though they generally compromised, the demands made by the wardens for the payment of the church rate.
The chapel stood in a graveyard containing about half an acre of land, close to the homestead of Bullocks-hall. Warburton, writing about 1715, calls ` West Chevington a mean village, in which is a ruined chapel of ease.' If the tradition which ascribes the final destruction of the chapel to a fire be based on fact, it is probable that it happened about this period, for the bell of `West Schivington Chappell' was stolen by Ralph Blacklaw and George Wilson of Sandifordstone, tinkers, about Michaelmas, 1717. The middle of the graveyard is a couple of feet above the level (being evidently raised by débris), and the only stone which can now be seen is a large and heavy through-stone with bevelled edges, from which all traces of an inscription, if any ever existed, have disappeared.
The graveyard, which continued to be used for burials up to the beginning of this century, was afterwards treated, somewhat irregularly, by the vicars of Warkworth as parcel of their glebe, but it has recently been transferred by the vicar of Warkworth to the perpetual curate of Chevington.
[Hodgson 1899]
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