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Frosterley, County Durham: People and Places of 1879

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

The Post Office Directory of Durham and Northumberland

by Kelly and Company

Published in 1879


FROSTERLEY is a township, station on the wear valley branch of the North Eastern railway, and ecclesiastical parish formed in 1866 from Frosterley quarter of the parish of Stanhope and Wolsingham parish : the village is pleasantly situated on the north bank of the Wear, 2 miles south-east from Stanhope, 3 west from Wolsingham, 24 from Darlington and 263 from London, in the Southern division of the county, north-western division of the ward of Darlington, union of Weardale, county court district of Wolsingham, northern division of Darlington, rural deanery of Darlington north, and Durham archdeaconry and diocese. The village is chiefly inhabited by the workmen employed in the neighbouring quarries. The Wear is here crossed by a stone bridge of three arches, erected in 1813. The church of St. Michael and All Angels is a handsome stone building in the Perpendicular style, erected in 1869 at a cost of £2,000, from the designs of G. E. Street, esq. R.A. and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, and organ chamber, with tower and spire and 3 bells ; there are seats for 272 persons, all free and unappropriated. The register dates from the year 1869. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £412, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Chester and held by the Rev. Wakefield S. Meade, M.A. of Clare College, Cambridge. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have places of worship here. There is a school with an endowment of about £40 a year arising from land and houses bequeathed by John Hinks in 1735, and about £6 a year by the late Mrs. Chapman, of Stanhope. Valentine Rippon, esq. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is gravelly ; subsoil, limestone. The area is 6,120 acres, and the population in 1871 was 1,317.

HILL END is a hamlet about 1 1/2 miles south-west.

White Kirkley is a hamlet, 1 mile south.

Parish Clerk, John Bird.

POST OFFICE.—Mrs. Mary Moffatt, receiver. Letters arrive from Darlington at 8.35 a.m. ; dispatched at 4.45 p.m. ; the nearest money order office is at Stanhope. The telegraph office is at the railway station

Railway Station, William Stainsby, station master

SCHOOLS :—

Endowed, Richard Gibson, master

Board, John Wren, master

Meade Rev. Wakefield S. M.A. [vicar]

Rippon Valentine, J.P. Rogerley hall

COMMERCIAL.

Atkinson Francis, farmer, Ridding ho

Chapman Robert, grocer

Collison John, butcher

Collison Thomas, farmer, Peak side

Currer Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Woodcroft

Emmerson John, farmer, Willow green

Emmerson Richard, shopkeeper

English George, Foresters' Arms

Gowland Ann (Mrs.), farmr. Capelsworth

Gowland James, shopkeeper

Harrison John (Mrs.), farmer, Dryburn

Harrison William, farmer, Peakfield

Hutchinson Thomas, farmer, Hollybush

Johnson Hall, farmer, Capelsworth

Johnstone James, butcher

Moffatt Thomas, grocer & draper

Mowbray Thomas, blacksmith

Ord & Maddison, limestone quarry owners, Bridge end

Page George, tailor

Pease Joseph Whitwell & Co. quarry owners (Robert Chapman, manager)

Peacock Mary Ann (Mrs.), Hare & Hounds

Pickering Emerson, grocer

Pickering Henry, farmer, Mill houses

Pickering John, butcher

Reid John, farmer, Intack

Ridley John, farmer, Frosterley Bridge end

Ridley William, farmer, Peakfield

Spencer William & Co. quarry owners (Thomas Greenwell, manager)

Taylor John, Railway tavern

Todd Thomas, farmer, Broadwood

Tunstall Francis, tailor

Turnbull Walter, shopkeeper

Walton Jacob & Co. lead & coal mine & quarry owners

Warmouth Matthew, farmer, Broadwood

Wilkinson John, Black Bull



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