Plaque to William Akenside, St Andrew's Church, Heddon on the Wall. Photo A Curtis (2015}.
Cadwallader J. Bates wrote about Eachwick in Heddon-on-the-Wall: The Church and Parish (Archaeologia aeliana v11 p240-294, 1886)
The family longest connected with Eachwick were the Akensides. [106] The name of Thomas Akenside, gent., of Eachwick, appears on the list of freeholders in Northumberland in 1628; and immediately to the right on entering Heddon Church is a marble tablet to the memory of "Captain William Akenside of the 14th Regmt. of Foot, son of William Akenside, late of Eachwick, who died 22 October, 1830, aged 49." Mark Akenside, the poet (1721-1770), belonged to this family, of which his father was a younger son settled in business as a butcher in Newcastle, and it was his uncle of Eachwick who bore all the expenses of his education. [107]
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