Other Places in Allendale
Giercoats - Guire Coats is listed in the 1881 census adjacent to High Greenleycleugh
Grassby Well Row is listed between Hankuplec and Kiersley Well Row
Farneyshield 1881 William Jackson
Breckon House (also known as Brekkon Mea, Bracken House)
Approximately 1 km NNW of Coalcleugh (grid reference NY806462)
The Carrshield burial registers in 1901 list 12 year old Margaret Ann Swindle as being from Breckon House. Peter Swindle, her father or grandfather, appears to have been moving between different cottages around Coalcleugh (The States, Cross Dykes, Shieldridge). In 1865 and on the modern map the cottage is name Bracken House but in the 1841 census it is Breckon Mea. (Other neighbouring cottages are Rushy Mea and Whetstone Mea).*
 1865 map (Click on map for larger area) |
*"Meas are extensive stretches of land where springs of water abound, and consequently land where rushes, moss, and long grass flourish." William Morley Egglestone "Weardale Names of Moor and Fell" 1886