Hi Geoff, Thanks for this. I did just come across a reference on a book digitised by google. The Poll Book of the Contested Election for the Southern Division of Northumberland ... December, 1832 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-6FYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA88&lpg=PA88&dq=percy+banks+chirton+hay&source=bl&ots=3kQ1sH3y9M&sig=hG3GgN0XCt9RIrmseSy_BYWtHKg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=em4uVJv9JtXjaszfgOgG&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=percy%20banks%20chirton%20hay&f=false There is a reference on the page to Percy-banks, Hay-hl, which will be an abbreviation for Hayhole. And low and behold, just spread out my Percy Main map as I remembered there is a Hayhole Point listed on the river side, and just above, there's the elusive Percy Bank, just to the left of the Commissioners' Straiths. Fantastic :-) Still not sure exactly what it is. There's a couple of buldings there, but looks like a god-forsaken place to live. Regards John ________________________________ From: Geoff Nicholson <geoff.nicholson@aol.co.uk> To: jd.gosling@btinternet.com; northumbria@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, 3 October 2014, 10:34 Subject: Re: [NMB] Where was Percy Banks in Chirton? From: Geoff Nicholson   John:      Percy Road/Street West runs west/east through a lot of Chirton and North Shields, even today.  I would expect Percy Banks to have been the steeply-sloping district between that road and the river, now entirely built over.  Failing that, there just might be a connection with Percy Main just about a mile west of N Shields.  However, that was an old pit village, a little further from the river and, to me, "Banks" sounds like a steep hillside.                                          Geoff Nicholson