1823, the Parish of Stanwick Saint John

"Caldwell, in the parish of Stanwick Saint John, wapentake of Gilling West; 9 miles north of Richmond. Anciently a pace of considerable extent, but now a mere farming village. Pop. 188.

This has been a very considerable place and of great antiquity, near Ermine Street leading to Gretabridge and Lavatrae, between which stations another road branched off in a direct line, and crossed the (River) Tees at Thorngate, a street so called in Barnardcastle. -Archeol."
"there appere," says Leland, "ruines of buildings at Cawdewelle village;" again, "Cawdewell is so caullid from a little font or spring, by the ruines of the old place, and so rennith into a bake halfe a quarter of a mile of."