Enjoy a glimpse of history about Edmundbyers in County Durham, England, UK.
The Post Office Directory of Durham and Northumberland
by Kelly and Company
Published in 1879
EDMUNDBYERS a township and parish is a polling place for the Northern division of the county, western division of Chester ward, Weardale union, county court district of Shotley Bridge, petty sessional division of Stanhope, rural deanery of Esh, officialty of the Dean and Chapter of Durham, and diocese of Durham, and is bounded on the north and east by the Derwent, which here forms the boundary of the county ; it is about 12 miles from Hexham, 8 north from Stanhope station, 19 south-west from Gateshead, and 273 from London. The village of Edmundbyers consists of a few cottages and houses around a small green, on the descent of a hill washed by the Burnhope burn, which falls into the Derwent. The Gateshead and Stanhope turnpike road passes through the village. The church of St. Edmund is an ancient stone building in the Saxon style, with chancel and nave, supported by short buttresses, porch and 1 bell : it was restored in 1859. The register dates from the year 1700. The living is a rectory, yearly value £305, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Durham, and held by the Rev. Walker Featherstonhaugh, M.A. of University College, Durham. The Parochial school, erected in 1825, at the expense of the Dean and Chapter of Durham and Lord Crewe's trustees, is maintained by subscriptions and the payments of scholars, the average number being 35. A Sunday school is also held here. A Wesleyan chapel was erected in 1835, at a cost of £90, upon ground given by Mr. Thomas Ward. The Primitive Methodists meet at the house of Mr. Thomas Walton. Minerals, lead, freestone, flagstone, and blue limestone are found here. The moors are much frequented in the shooting season, there being abundance of red grouse. The Dean and Chapter of Durham and Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who are lords of the manor, and John Hall, esq. of Roughside, are the chief landowners. The soil is loam peat, or clay ; the subsoil, sandstone or gravelly. The chief crops are barley, oats, and grass. The acreage is 4,880, of which 3,250 are moorland ; rateable value, £1,592 ; the population in 1871 was 343.
ROUGHSIDE is a small hamlet in the parish of Edmundbyers, and is about 2 1/2 miles north-west. Roughside Hall is the seat of John Hall, esq.
POST OFFICE.—Mrs. Jane Swinburn, receiver. Letters arrive through Black Hill daily (sundays excepted) at 1.15 p.m. ; dispatched at 2.15 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Blanchland Waywardens, Thomas Lowden & Robert Thompson Parochial School, John Tattersall, master
Featherstonhaugh Rev. Walker, M.A. [rector] Hall John, Roughside hall
COMMERCIAL. Barker Joseph, farmer Bell Henry, shopkeeper Bullman Henry & Thomas, farmers Carr John, farmer Makepeace Thomas, farmer Snowden Joseph, Mineral Arms Stephenson Charles, farmer Swinburn Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper Teesdale Charles, farmer Thompson Elizbth. (Mrs.), Punch Bowl Urwin John, farmer, Roughside Urwin William, butcher Walton Jackson, shopkeeper White John, farmer
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