About twenty miles from Newcastle upon Tyne. 13th century St. Bartholowmew's church where there is a memorial to Sir Charles Algernon Parsons OM inventor of the modern Steam Turbine who died in February 1931 aboard the SS Duchess of Richmond at Kingston Jamaica and was is burried in the graveyard with his wife Lady Parsons and Dame of Ray formerly Katharine Bethell of Rise Park, Beverley, Yorkshire