At some point in Wallington’s history, the following verse was written as part of a poem entitled “Cheviot”:

The Blackett ancestral home of Esholt Hall stands today close to the village of Esholt near Bradford, in the County of West Yorkshire.

Newby Hall is situated on the banks of the river Ure near Ripon and Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire.

About a mile west of the village of Hamsterley, County Durham stands a cottage now known as Holly Bush, at one time the home of

The Blackett ancestral home of Shull lies in the Hamsterley Forest area to the north-west of Hamsterley village, and is situated close to Hoppyland (to the south), the Shipleys (to the east) and Bedburn Hall (to the south).

Hoppyland, which lies close to the village of Bedburn, west of Hamsterley, was purchased in 1619 by

Hoppyland in its prime

(Courtesy of Beamish Photographic Archive)

[i] Mayland has been known by that name for many centuries, and is referred to as such in grants of land, dating back to before the 13th century, known as the Mayland Charters.

[i] South Bedburn, in the township of Hamsterley, Bishop Auckland, is situated in a pleasant location on the north side of the Bedburn Beck (Beda’s Beck), from which the name of the township is possibly derived. Bedburn Hall today was built circa 1900, by Fogg Elliot.

In 1596 Peter Blackett, a younger son of