Eaglescliffe, County Durham: The People and Places of 1879

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The Post Office Directory of Durham and Northumberland

by Kelly and Company

Published in 1879

EAGLESCLIFFE, or EGGLESCLIFFE, is a village, township and parish, separated from Yarm by the river Tees, 4 miles from Stockton-on-Tees, 10 from Darlington, and 23 from Durham, in the Southern division of the county, south-west division of Stockton ward, union and county court district of Stockton, rural deanery of Stockton, archdeaconry and diocese of Durham. The village is situated on the steep and lofty northern bank of the Tees, and overlooks the curve in that river which nearly surrounds the peninsula upon which the town of Yarm is situated. The village is connected with Yarm by a stone bridge, erected about the year 1400 by the then Bishop of Durham : it consisted originally of five pointed arches ; and there is a tradition that the north arch was cut and formed into a drawbridge during the civil wars, when Eaglescliffe with Stockton was garrisoned by the royalists : the north arch has since that time been rebuilt in a semi-circular form. The Stockton and Darlington railway intersects this township. The Leeds Northern railway, a branch of the North Eastern, enters the county of Durham at Eaglescliffe by the Yarm viaduct, a handsome structure of forty-three arches, each of about forty feet span. There are two railway stations in this parish, viz., those of Yarm and Eaglescliffe Junction, upon the latter of which the North Eastern railway Co. have spent £10,000 for the arrangement of their Hartlepool and Darlington and Stockton sections. The church, thought generally to have been dedicated to St. John the Baptist, but by some to St. Mary Magdalene, is of the Third Pointed style, and consists of chancel, nave and south aisle, called the Aislaby chapel ; the chancel is fitted with canopied stalls ; there is an embattled tower with 2 bells. The register dates from the year 1539. The living is a rectory, yearly value £1,049, in the gift of the Bishop of Manchester, and held by the Rev. John Hull, M.A. of Brasenose College, Oxford, hon. canon of Manchester Cathedral. There are charities of £6 annual value. Paper is manufactured here by C. T. Bainbridge and Son. The rector is lord of the manor of Eaglescliffe. The principal landowners are the rector, T. W. Waldy, esq. the Earl of Eldon, R. H. Allan, esq. of Blackwell Hall, Darlington, and Mrs. Meynell. The soil is rich and loamy, and produces abundant crops of wheat, oats, beans and turnips. The area is 1,507 acres ; rateable value, £8,364 ; the population of the township in 1871 was 539.

URLAY NOOK is a hamlet in this township, 1 mile north of Eaglescliffe. Here are the chemical works belonging to Mr. Robert Hatton Wilson.

AISLABY is a village and township, in the parish of Eaglescliffe, 1 mile west. The principal landowners are the Earl of Eldon and R. H. Allan, esq. The area is 2,260 acres ; rateable value, £3,194 ; the population of the township in 1871 was 142.

NEWSHAM is a small hamlet and township in Eaglescliffe parish, 3 1/2 miles west : it comprises an area of 1,054 acres, divided into four farms ; rateable value, £1,282 ; population in 1871, 48.

Parish Clerk, Joseph Holmes.

Letters by messenger from Yarm, arrive at 9 a.m., dispatched at 6.10 ; sundays 5.10 ; which is also the nearest money order office

National School, Herbert Taylor

Inland Revenue Officer, Rate Collector & Assistant Overseer, Robert Wilson

RAILWAY STATIONS:—

Yarm (N.E.R.), George Collishaw, station master

Eaglescliffe (N.E.R.), junction for Hartlepool & Stockton & Saltburn & Darlington railways), Thomas Porritt, station master

82 EAGLESCLIFFE. [DURHAM.] [POST OFFICE]

Eaglescliffe. Buffam William Doughty Miss Hull Rev. John, M.A. [hon. canon of Manchester cathedral, rector] Peto Rev. Alfred Henry, M.A. [curate] Robinson James, Stockton road Sadler Lt.-Colonel S. A. J. P. Southlands Waldy Capt. Edward Garmondsway, J.P. The Cottage Waldy Thomas Wm. J.P., D.L. The Hall Wilson Robert Hutton

COMMERCIAL. Almond Richard, farmer Bainbridge Charles Thomas & Son, paper manufacturers, Tees paper mill Best Robert, blacksmith Brown James, builder Burton John, miller Dodds Robert, Bay Horse, Urlay Nook Dunning Jonathan, miller Elstob John, farmer, Urlay Nook Ferguson Thomas, hay merchant Filder John, coal agent to N.E. Railway Fowler John, farmer Goldie John, Blue Bell Harbron Christopher, jun. tailor Harbron Ralph, shoe maker Harrison Thomas, Railway inn Hill Francis, farmer Hill Robert, farmer Holiday Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer Hutchinson Robert, farmer Jefferson Joseph, market gardener Johnson Thomas, blacksmith Lawrence William, market gardener Lincoln George, farmer Nicholson Mary (Mrs.), market gardener Robinson George, market gardener Roper Thomas, Pipe, Pot & Glass Smith John Joseph, farmer Soutter Benjamin, veterinary surgeon Stock William Henry, farmer Thompson John, jun. market gardener Thompson John, sen. market gardener Tinkler William, market gardener Walker Geo. tanner, Eaglescliffe tannery Walls Benjamin, contractor & agent to the N. E. Railway Co Watkins William, farmer Wilson Benjamin, shoe maker Wilson George, market gardener Wilson Robert, shopkeeper Wilson Robert Hutton, manufacturing chemist, Urlay Nook

Aislaby. Adamson Joseph, Black Bull Bradley John, farmer, Aislaby grange Belk Thomas, farmer Harrison Thomas, farmer Holt William, farmer, Holm house Hutchinson Thos. farmer, Trafford hill Middleton Francis, farmer Mowbray William, farmer Smith Edward, farmer, Port Knowl Sowerby John, farmer, Featherstone ho Umpleby Robert, blacksmith Urwin John, farmer Wilson Thomas, farmer

Newsham. Bell George, farmer, White house Crusher William, farmer Emmett Henry, farmer Fidler Jonathan, farmer Maughan Joseph, farmer Shaw James, farmer