Coundon, County Durham: People and Businesses of 1879

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

The Post Office Directory of Durham and Northumberland

by Kelly and Company

Published in 1879

 


COUNDON is an ecclesiastical parish, in Auckland union and county court district, rural deanery of Darlington, archdeaconry and diocese of Durham, comprising the townships of COUNDON, WESTERTON and WINSPLEND. formed in 1842 out of the parish of St. Andrew Auckland: it is 2 miles east of Bishop Auckland. The church of St. James is a handsome Gothic stone building, erected in 1872, capable of seating 530 persons: it has chancel, nave and south aisle, with belfry and 1 bell. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £557, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Durham, and held by the Rev. Thomas Farquhar Hill, of Caius College, Cambridge. There is a reading room. The extensive collieries surrounding the village support the inhabitants. The village was in the year 1878 lighted with gas from Spennymoor. There are chapels for Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists and New Connexion. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who are lords of the manor, and Mr. Wharton are the chief landowners. The number of acres is 584; rateable value, £12,048; the population is 2,765.

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46 COUNDON. DURHAM. [POST OFFICE

Letters arrive through Bishop Auckland at 8.30 a.m.; dispatched at 5 p.m.; no dispatch on sunday. Telegraph office open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. week days & 8 to 10 a.m. on sunday

Coundon
Church of England Schools (mixed), Lancelot George Read, master; Miss Reed, girls’ mistress, Miss Lurley, infants’ mistress

Westerton is a small township in the parish of Coundon, half a mile from the church, 2½ miles north-east from Bishop Auckland and 8 miles from Durham. The Black Boy Coal Company are lords of the manor. The Bincther Colliery, belonging to Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. Limited, is situated here. The principal landowners are Mr. Farlow Tweedale and Mr. John Eden. The area is 626 acres; gross estimated rental, £7,289; rateable value, £1,781

Windlestone is a township in this parish, 2 miles north from the parish church and 4 east-by-south from Bishop Auckland

Carruthers George
Chisholm Thomas, North lodge
Dean Thomas, Bracks lodge
Davies John, Hartley house
Hill Rev. Thomas Farquhar [vicar], Vicarage
Manson Richard Taylor
Robinson Rev. Allen Jas. B.A. [curate]
Robinson Robert, Howlish hall

COMMERCIAL.

Briggs John, shopkeeper
Burdon John, carpenter
Carruthers George, surgeon
Chapman George, butcher
Chapman Thomas, butcher
Charlton Ralph, carrier
Chisholm Thomas, mechanical engineer, North lodge
Clowes Francis, colliery viewer
Dodson Matthew, colliery surveyor
Davison Thomas, coal agent & carter
Dislay Wm. Blue Bells, New Coundon
Fincham Wm. shopkpr. of traps for hire
Featherstone Wm. shopkpr. Coundon gate
Ferguson Thomas, beer retailer
Foster Henry, farmer & carrier
Gibson James, Three Tuns
Greenwell John, butcher
Halliday John, grocer, Coundon gate
Hope Matthew, grocer & draper
Hope William, cartwright & joiner
Jackson Edward & Robert, butchers
Jackson Edward, farmer
Johnson Robert, blacksmith
Kay & Greaves, brown ware manufacturers, Canney hill

Lamb Alexander, boot maker & assistant overseer
Lamb Thomas, grocer & draper, Ladster, New Coundon
Lidster Richard, tailor
Lockey Arkless, butcher
Manners Christopher, butcher
Manners Elizabeth (Mrs.), grocer
Manners John, carpenter & builder
Manners Robert, hay & straw dealer
Manson Richard Taylor, surgeon
Marshall Robert, tailor
Mather Henry, Old Black Boy, Canney Hill
Maughan William, grocer & draper
Oughton William, Lord Stanley P.H.
Pearce Robert, Sportsman’s Arms, Coundon Hill
Peverell Mary Ann (Mrs.), Old Black Boy
Peverell Thomas, boot & shoe maker
Peverell John, grocer
Raine Luke, shopkeeper
Richardson William, Greyhound
Ridley Thomas Crofton, beer retailer
Robinson John, shopkeeper
Robinson Robert, mining engineer, Howlish hall
Robinson William, butcher
Robson John, Durham Ox
Smith William, tailor
Strong Henry, grocer
Studdock Matthew, shoe maker
Thompson Robert, butcher
Thompson Robert, jun. butcher
Weighton Denison, druggist & grocer
Waddington Geo. George, Coundon gate
Walker Robert, boot maker
Walker Robert, fruiterer

Auckland, Windlestone Hall, the seat of Sir William Eden, bart. J.P. is a splendid mansion on the road from Bishop Auckland; the hall was rebuilt about 1837; the grounds are extensive, tastefully laid out and ornamented with rich and varied plantations; the elevation and improvements were effected at the cost of £40,000. Sir William Eden is master of the South Durham Fox Hounds; new kennels were erected at Windlestone in this township in the year 1878. Sir William Eden, bart. J.P. is lord of the manor and the principal landowner. The area is 1,170 acres; rateable value, £2,089 and the population in 1871 was 154

**POST OFFICE.—**Charles Low, receiver. Letters through Ferry Hill arrive at 8.40 a.m.; dispatched 5.25 p.m.; no dispatch on sunday

Sir William Eden’s Schools (for boys & girls), Charles Low, master

Eden John Geo. timber dr.; & saw mills
Watson Thomas, house painter
Webster William, shoe warehouseman
Wright Carey, fitter
White John, grocer, Coundon gate
White John, Hettmine, New Coundon
Whitman James, stationer
Whitman Frederick, shoemaker
Wilkinson James, butcher
Winlay Robert, Watchman
Wright George William, grocer
Wright Benjamin, boot maker
Wright Robert, clerk & parish clerk

Westerton.

Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. limited, colliery proprietors (Mathias S. Hall, resident viewer), Bincther Colliery
Bradbury Thomas, grocer
Braunskill George, furniture remover
Westerton farm

Hunter John, mason’s Arms
Manners Robert, farmer
Taylor James, assistant overseer

Windlestone.

Eden Sir William, bart. J.P., D.L. Windlestone Hall
Alderson James, farmer & bailiff
Claxon Wm. huntsman to the South Durham fox hounds, Rushyford
Coatsworth George, shopkeeper
Greenwell George, farmer, Grange Hall
George, Eden Arms tavern
Rushworth John
Johnson Samuel, joiner
Stephenson Thomas, farmer
Thompson Thomas, land steward to Sir William Eden, bart. J.P.


EAST HETTON, an important colliery village in this township, but in the ecclesiastical parish of Kelloe, is about 1 mile east from Coxhoe. There is a Wesleyan chapel







Location: Coundon, Bishop Auckland DL14, UK

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