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This list is transcribed from Bates's transcription of The Survey Booke of Norham and Ilandshire, taken and made in the third yeare of our soueraigne Lady Elizabeth, Queene of Englnad, France, and Ireland, Def. of the Faith, etc., by Anthony Roone, Esqr., one of the Queene's Mats. Auditors, and Thomas Baytes, Gent., Surveyor of her Mats. Lands in the County of Northumberland. This version abridges the list to references to fortifications and omits the three township in the list which were without fortifications (Roose, Shoreswood, Lowlyn).
| Name | Description | Modern Name
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| Newbiging | In the same towne is one tower in good reparacions and a good barnkin about the same | West Newbiggin, Norham |
| Twizell | There hath beene in the said towne one towre, or pile, which is of auncyent tyme decayed and cast downe, and there remayneth one parte or quarter thereof, and a barnkin about it. | Twizell Castle |
| Tilmouth | In the same towne is a little tower or pile much in decay, and a little barnekin about ye came | Tilmouth Tower |
| Cornehylle | There is in the same one towre, or pile with a barnekin about the same, and is in indifferent good reparacyons | Cornhill Castle |
| Heaton | In the same towne is the scite of a fayre castle decayed, which was destroyed by the Scotts in tyme of Kinge Henry the Seaventh, and neuer syne repaired, so that there remaneth no buildings save ye vauts of ye same and a dwelling house for ye fermor, and a barnekin. | Castle Heaton Castle |
| Duddoo | In the same is one pile, or tower, which is decayed by reason it was cast downe by the Scotts at Flodden-field1, and nyver repayred senths, and there standeth bot the halfe yr of, about the which is one barnekin | Duddo Tower |
| Grydon | There is at Grindon Ridge a towre in good reparacions | Grindonrigg Tower |
| Ancroft | In the same towne of Ancroft is one pile, builded to the end of the church, and dyvers good howses beside. | Ancroft Church of St Ann |
| Felkyngton | In the towne of Felkyngton is noe tower, or pile, but one bastall house of small strength. | Felkington Bastle, Duddo |
| Ellwick | There is in the same towne twoe towres. | Elwick Tower of Thomas Bradforth Elwick Tower of Thomas Elwyke |
| Fenham | There is in the same towne one towre in good reparacions. | Fenham Tower |
| Thornton | There is in the same one towre which was cast downe at Flodden filed by the Scotts,2 and is not yet well repayred, bot yt one peece yett is in decay, and a barnkin about it. | Thornton Tower, Shoreswood |
| Gosewick | There is one good pile there builded vppon the enheritaunce of Thomas Swinhoe, and in good reparacions | Goswick Tower, Ancroft |
| Skremerston | There is in the same towne on good towre, with a barnekin in good reparacions. | Scremerston Tower |
| Cheswick | There is a little towre, ruinous and in dacy, of the inheritaunce of Thomas Maners. | Cheswick Tower |