National Gazetteer (1868) - Ilderton

"ILDERTON, a parish in the ward of Coquetdale, county Northumberland, 4¼ miles S. E. of Wooler, its post town, 12 S.W. of Belford. The parish is situated under the Cheviot hills, near the river Breamish, which has a fall at Linhopespout. Several other minor streams, as the Caldgate, Lilbourn, and Roddam, intersect the parish. The high road from Alnwick to Wooler passes to the S.W. It contains the townships of Ilderton, North and South Middleton, Middleton Hall, Roddam, and Roseden. The soil is light and gravelly. This parish formerly belonged to the Ildertons, who had a seat here. The principal mountain in the neighbourhood is Hedgehope, rising to the height of 2,347 feet above sea level, and at the base of which is a Druidical circle of ten stones. There are traces of Roman camps at Rosedon. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Durham, value £96. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a modern structure, with tower containing one bell. There are parochial schools for both sexes, also a Sunday-school."

"MIDDLETON-HALL, a township in the parish of Ilderton, N. division of Coquetdale ward, county Northumberland, 3 miles N.W. of Ilderton, and 1½ mile S. of Wooler."

"NORTH MIDDLETON, a township in the parish of Ilderton, N. division of Coquetdale ward, county Northumberland, 2 miles S.E. of Wooler. It belongs to the Earl of Tankerville.

"RODDAM, a township in the parish of Ilderton, N. division of Coquetdale ward, county Northumberland, 5 miles S.E. of Wooler, and 1 mile S. of Ilderton. It was given to Poulane, or Pulleine, an ancestor of the Roddam family, by Athelstane, after the battle of Brunaburgh. Roddam Hall is the principal residence."

"ROSEDEN, (or Rosdon), a township in the parish of Ilderton, N. division of Coquetdale ward, county Northumberland, 5 miles S.E. of Wooler, its post town, and 1 mile S.E. of Ilderton. It includes Roseden Edge, on which are the remains of a semicircular British camp with an inner wall of loose stones, supposed to have been squared by the Romans, and near to it is Bewick Hill camp.

"SOUTH MIDDLETON, a township in the parish of Ilderton, N. division of Coquetdale ward, county Northumberland, 3 miles S. of Wooler.