Plenmeller

Located 1 mile SSE of Haltwhistle on the south side of the river Tyne.  It can be found on Lieutenant Andrew Armstrong & Son's Map of the County of Northumberland, 1769.

1191

In 1191 William the Lion gave the manor (Featherstone), along with the manors of Bellister and Plemellor to his daughter, Isobel, upon her marrage to Robert de Ros.  Their son, Robert de Ros, inherited the estates in 1227.  The manor remained in the possession of her descendants for several generations, passing through the female line to the Musgrave family in 1343, and to the Featherstonhaughs in the 16th century.  Albany Featherstonhaugh, who was the High Sheriff, sold it to Lord William Howard of Naworth, who Sir Walter Scott depicts as a warlike Border magnate in his poem: 'His Bilboa blade, by Marchment felt / Hung in a broad and studded belt / Hence, in rude phrase, the Borders still / Called noble Howard, BELTED WILL.'

1600

Nov 16    Presentment: Nicholas Snowden f. of Plemmeller, yeoman; at the Abbey gate, Hexham murdered Robert Martyn with a sword worth 5s., giving him a fatal wound on the head five inches long and three inches deep. Robert Martyn languished at Hexham from 16 November to 4 December when he died, having received a further blow on the head which would also have been fatal, four inches deep and three inches long. Elizabeth Martyn f. of Westerhowses, spinster, alias Elizabeth Martyn, wife of the said Robert Martyn, knowing him to be murdered, on the 26 July at the castle of Newcastle upon Tyne received feloniously 38s., through Hugh Ridley, senior, part payment of £15 from an unknown man to conceal evidence against Nicholas Snowdon. [NRO QSI/1, f23v (141)]

1603

Aug 8    Presentment: John Rydley f. of Plemmeller, labourer; at Whittfeild stole seven lambs worth 3s.4d., from Jane Whittwell. [NRO QSI/1, f34r (188)]