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Cassop, County Durtham: People and Businesses of 1879

 Enjoy a glimpse of history about Cassop in County Durham, England, UK.

The Post Office Directory of Durham and Northumberland

by Kelly and Company

Published in 1879

 

CASSOP-cum-QUARRINGTON is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1865 from the parish of Kelloe, and comprises HENGHALL, QUARRINGTON HILL and OLD and NEW CASSOP, all of which are on elevated spots and command extensive views of the surrounding country : it is in the Northern division of the county, south division of Easington ward, union and county court district of Durham, rural deanery of South Easington southern division, archdeaconry and diocese of Durham. The church of St. Paul is a small unpretending building, in the Norman style, and has chancel, nave, and 1 bell. The register dates from the year

38 CASSOP. DURHAM. [POST OFFICE]

  1. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £300, in the gift of the Bishop and Crown alternately, and held by the Rev. Thomas Henry Thompson, M.A. of University College, Durham. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are the lords of the manor, and they, with the Rev. R. H. Williamson, are the principal landowners.

Cassop (Old and New) form a township in this parish. Old Cassop is 2 1/2 miles from Coxhoe station on the North Eastern railway, about 5 south-east-by-east from Durham, and is inhabited by a few farmers. New Cassop is about a mile to the south and is pleasantly situated on an eminence commanding extensive views. There are chapels for Wesleyan Methodists and Primitive Methodists. The soil is limestone ; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and grass. The acreage of the township is 1,636 ; rateable value, £5,283, and the population in 1871 was 783. The area of the ecclesiastical parish is 2,234 acres ; the population in 1871 was 1,322.

Parish Clerk, Watson Marshall.

POST & MONEY ORDER OFFICE & Savings Bank, Cassop Colliery.—George Stoker, sub-postmaster. Letters through Trimdon Grange R.S.O. arrive at 8.15 a.m. ; dispatched at 3.45 p.m.

CARRIERS TO DURHAM.—Robert Crossby & James Batey, every saturday

Board School, Mrs. Annie Wilkinson, mistress

Quarrington is a small scattered village and township in this parish. There is a colliery at Heugh-hall. The principal landowners are the Rev. R. H. Williamson and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The area is 1,589 acres ; rateable value, £3,533 ; and population in 1871 was 865.

PILLAR BOX.—Letters dispatched at 4 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Cassop Colliery

National School, William Pattison, master

Cassop Colliery and Cassop.

Batey James, carrier, Cassop colliery

Beard Geo. greengrocer, Cassop colliery

Bell Henry Wilkinson, farmer, Cassop

Carr William, Good Intent, Cassop

Castling Thomas, farmer, Cassop grange

Cook Dorothy (Mrs.), Cassop Moor inn, Cassop moor

Crossby Robert, carrier, Cassop colliery

Dunn William, farmer, Cassop

Forster Martha (Mrs.), Black Bull, Cassop colliery

Jones Saml. shopkeeper, Cassop colliery

Lofthouse Robert, tailor, Cassop colliery

Matthew Wm. grocer, Cassop colliery

Oddy John, butcher, Cassop colliery

Plant John, Heather Lad, Cassop

Raine Wm. Victoria inn, Cassop colliery

Smith William, Half Moon, Cassop

Stokoe George, grocer, & post office, Cassop colliery

Stokoe William Matthias, general draper & boot & shoe wareho. Cassop colliery

Whitehead Marian (Mrs.), Prince Albert, Cassop colliery

Quarrington.

Quelch J. Bewick, M.A. Bowburn ho

Smith Rev. Hibbet [curate]

Thompson Rev. Thos. Hy. M.A. Vicarage

Wood William Ry. West Hetton lodge

COMMERCIAL.

Atkinson William, farmer

Barker William, brick maker

Dawson James, Pit Laddie

Fowler James, farmer, Park hill

Heron William, blacksmith.

Lindsay James, farmer

Menzies George Dixon, farmer

Newton John, Hare & Hounds, Quarrington hill

Quelch J. Bewick, farmer, Bowburn house, Quarrington hill

Robson George, Wheatsheaf, Quarrington hill

Story Mary (Miss), farmer

Story Roger, farmer, Heugh hall

Wilkinson Thomas, Crow Trees Colliery inn, Quarrington hill


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Location: Cassop, Durham DH6 4RJ, UK

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