Dewley

Dewley was located to the north of Throckley in Newcastle.

Medieval Settlement

Dewley was a Medieval settlement, first documented in 1296, having 4 tax-payers. In 1622 Cuthbert Heron was recorded as having "a house and a close called Dewly"^[1]. The exact location of the Medieval settlement of Dewley is unknown, but may have been at the present Dewley Farm, the former East Dewley (house), or a cluster of buildings labelled as Dewley on the OS map of 1898 (the site of which was destroyed by the construction of the A69).^[2]

19th century

Extract from the OS 6 inch map (1888-1913) showing Dewley and Throckley Fire Brick and Clay Retort Works. CC-BY NLS

A settlement named Dewley is shown on maps, located to the east of Throckley Fire Brick and Tile Works, and to the south-west of Dewley Farm. It was possibly associated with Bewley pits / colliery of the 18th & 19th century. Whellan's 1855 directory of Northumberland lists Timothy Moore as boot and shoe maker in Dewley (two entries), under the parish of Newburn^[3]. Later, the site of Dewley was destroyed during the construction of the A69 / Newcastle Western Bypass, which opened in 1990. 

To the north of Delwley was a corn mill - named Throckley Mill on the first edition OS map Survey, labelled as Dewley Mill on later maps. A dam on Dewley Burn fed a mill race to power the mill. Much of the area was later destroyed by opencast coal mining - though the foundations of the 19th century mill still remain.^[4]

Dewley Pits (aka Dewley Burn Colliery), located further north towards Black Callerton, operated in the 18th and 19th century - where George Stephenson and his son Robert both worked for a time.