Castleside, County durham: People and Businesses of 1879

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

The Post Office Directory of Durham and Northumberland

by Kelly and Company

Published in 1879

CASTLESIDE is a small village, and was with Healeyfield township and Cold Rowley hamlet formed into an ecclesiastical parish in 1863 from the parishes of Ebchester, Muggleswick and Lanchester. Castleside is 9 miles north-west from Stanhope, and 16 south-west from Gateshead, in the northern division of the county, west division of Chester ward, Lanchester union, Shotley Bridge county court district, Chester rural deanery, archdeaconry and diocese of Durham. The church of St. John the Evangelist is of stone, in the Early English style, erected in 1867 : it is an oblong edifice, with apse chancel, and is designed to seat 170 persons. The register dates from the year 1867. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £300 (including £13 for glebe), with residence, in the gift of the Crown and the Bishop of Durham alternately, and held by the Rev. Wesley Farrar, M.A. of New Inn Hall, Oxford. There is a capacious school-house belonging to the Church of England. There is a Wesleyan chapel here, erected in 1878, capable of holding 300 persons : a Sunday school is held in the chapel, attended by about 100 scholars. A smelting mill at Watergate, Castleside, belongs to the firm of John Walton and Co. ; and the Healeyfield Mining Co. are owners of the Healeyfield lead mines. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor, and with the Healeyfield Mining Co. John Walton and Co. and William John Scott, are the landowners. The soil is sandy ; the sub-soil is gravel and stone. The chief crops are wheat, oats and pasture.

COLD ROWLEY with MAINSFIELD is a hamlet in this parish, and has a station on the Stockton and Darlington Junction railway. The Primitive Methodists have a chapel here. There is a chapel for Baptists, rebuilt in 1823 ; it has a Sunday school.

HEALEYFIELD is a township in the parish of Lanchester, forming part of the ecclesiastical parish of Castleside, 6 1/2 miles west, near Castleside and Cold Rowley station on the Stockton and Darlington railway. There are but a few farms and some lead mines in this township. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are the lords of the manor. The principal landowners are the Healeyfield Mining Co. The soil is sandy ; subsoil, gravel and stone.

The ecclesiastical district taken in 1871 :—

	Popu-lation.	Acreage.	Rateable Value.
Castleside with Cold Rowley	1,676	2,221	£3,367
Healeyfield . . . . . .	380	1,084	£1,476

POST OFFICE.—Mrs. Elizabeth Kell, receiver. Letters through Black Hill arrive at 10 a.m. ; dispatched at 11 a.m. week days only. The nearest money order office is at Consett

Board School, Wm. Howie, master ; Mrs. Susan Howie, mists

Stockton & Darlington Railway Junction, Thomas Featherstone, station master

Names marked thus * are in Shotley Bridge town.

Farrar Rev. Wesley, M.A. [vicar], Vicarage

Ritson Ralph B

Town Annandale, J.P. Allansford

COMMERCIAL.

Allison Robert, Fleece

Angus William, farmer, Horselip row

*Bowey John, farmer, Middlehead

Brown Daniel, manager to Healeyfield Mining Co

*Davidson Robert, Bay Horse, Four Lane ends

Dow William, bailiff to W. Dickinson, esq. Derwent grange

Davidson Thomas, Smelters' Arms

*Drummond John, farmer, Hole house

Elliott Matthew, farmer, Dene house

Errington George, farmer, Cold Rowley

Fowler Eleanor (Miss), farmer, White hall

Golightly Anthony, cartwright, Cold Rowley

Graham Isabella (Mrs.), frmr. Healeyfld

Healeyfield Mining Co. (lead mines), (Daniel Brown, manager)

Kell George, mason & shopkeeper

*Kirton Edward, farmer, Lyre dean

Kirton John, farmer, Eliza farm

*Lee Matthew, butcher

Leybourne Elliott, farmer, Healeyfield

Milner John, jun. joiner

Muse Thomas John, grocer & draper

Nattrass Margaret (Miss), fancy draper

Proud Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Richardson Joseph, blacksmith

*Robinson Henry, farmer, Burn hill

Robson John, farmer, Healeyfield

Robson Robert, joiner & shopkeeper

Stephenson George, grocer

*Stephenson John, farmer, Todds hill

Surtees Thomas, farmer, Horselip row

Turnbull Thomas, farmer, Lindesfarn

Walker John, farmer, Rowley farm

Walton John & Co. lead smelters, Healeyfield mill

Walton Robert, lead smelter, see John Walton & Co