Etherley , County Durham

Enjoy a glimpse of history about Etherley in County Durham, North East England, UK.

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The Post Office Directory of Durham and Northumberland

by Kelly and Company

Published in 1879

ETHERLEY is an ecclesiastical parish and scattered village, including the hamlet of MORLEY, formed in 1833 from the parishes of St. Andrew Auckland and St. Helen's Auckland, 3 miles west of Bishop Auckland, 258 1/2 miles from London and 1 1/4 from Etherley station on the North Eastern railway, in the north-west division of Darlington ward, Bishop Auckland union and county court district, rural deanery of Darlington, northern division, archdeaconry of Durham and diocese of Durham, situated near the river Wear. The church of St. Cuthbert is a plain stone building, in good repair, built in 1832, and was restored and enlarged in 1867, at a cost of £1,020, and will seat 350 persons ; it consists of chancel, nave and tower, and contains an organ. The register dates from the year 1832. The living is a rectory, yearly value £450, with residence, and including 70 acres of glebe land, in the gift of the Bishop of Manchester, and held by the Rev. James Moore, M.A. of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Sunday schools are held at the National school, also at the Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. The parish abounds with coals, freestone, and other minerals. Here are a literary institute and reading room. Etherley House is a beautiful residence, at present unoccupied. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor. The principal landowners are Sir William Eden, bart. Messrs. Henry Stobart & Co. Mr. John Jackson, Mr. Richard Jackson and Mr. Thomas Jackson. The soil is clay and loamy ; the subsoil is rock. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The acreage is 5,700 ; the population in 1871 was 2,091.

MORLEY is a scattered hamlet, 2 miles distant, where there is a National school, erected in 1873, at a cost of £370 ; divine service is held in the school-room every Sunday by the vicar of Etherley.

Sexton, John Slee.

Letters by foot post from Bishop Auckland. The nearest money order office is at Toft Hill

SCHOOLS :—

National (boys & girls), E. D. Burns, master ; Miss E. A. Dawson, mistress

National, Morley, Robert Alderson, master

Alderson Mrs

Allan William

Bradford George

Dodds John

Leighton Rev. George [curate]

Moore Rev. James, M.A. [rector], Rectory

Smith John, St. Vincent cottage

COMMERCIAL.

Armstrong Robert, farmer, Morley

Balmer John, Three Tuns

Blenkinson Thomas, blacksmith

Booth John, grocer & draper

Brass Thomas, grocer

Brunskill Robert, farmer, Morley

Buckle George, butcher

Cooper John, Black Bull

Dixon Henry, farmer, Etherley moor

Dodd John, joiner, Morley

Foster Henry, fruiterer

Franklin John, Dog & Gun

Hare George, farmer, Morley

Harland Joseph, grocer

Heaviside George, farmer, Morley

Hindmarsh Valentine, farmer, Morley

Horlington George, clothier & tailor

Hunt —, land steward to William Stobart, esq

Jackson John, farmer, Greenfield cottage

Jackson Thos. farmer, Etherley grange

James Ralph, farmer

Lawson George, farmer, Morley Literary Institute (Rd. Blythman, sec)

Maddison George, farmer & contractor, Morley

Richardson George, Bay Horse inn

Richardson Thomas, farmer, Morley

Scarr Robert, farmer, Morley

Snaith Robt. grocer & china & glass dealer

Snowdon Robert, joiner

Stephenson John, grocer & draper

Stobart Henry & Co. colliery proprietors & fire brick manufacturers (John Dodds, cashier ; George Bradford, viewer), Old Etherley collieries

Stonebank George, grocer

Stones William, Jug & Glass

Thompson Jane (Mrs.), farmer, Morley

Towson John, farmer, Morley

Vart John, farmer, Greenfield

Watson Thomas, Blue Bell

Wilkinson George, farmer, Morley

Wilson James, Railway Bridge inn

Wilson William, grocer & draper