Heathery Cleugh, County Durham: People and Places of 1879

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

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The Post Office Directory of Durham and Northumberland

by Kelly and Company

Published in 1879

HEATHERY CLEUGH is an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1866 from the western portion of Forest quarter of Stanhope parish: it adjoins the parish of Alston in Cumberland; it is situated on the river North Grain, about 3 miles north-west from Weardale St. John, and 16 west from Stanhope, and is bounded on the north by a portion of the county of Northumberland, and on the west by Cumberland, in the Southern division of the county, Weardale union, Wolsingham county court district, northern division of Darlington rural deanery, and Durham archdeaconry and diocese. The church (name unknown) is a plain stone building, erected in 1823, and consists of chancel and nave with southern porch; it is in the hamlet of Copt Hill. The register dates from the year 1823. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £400, in the gift of the Bishop of Durham, and held by the Rev. George Monkhouse, of St. Bees. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are the lords of the manor and principal landowners. There are extensive lead and iron ore mines in this district, and the land, where cultivated, is mainly cut up into very small pasture farms, held by the workers in the mines. The area is 8,890 acres, and the population in 1871 was 1,872.

Heathery Cleugh.

Monkhouse Rev. George [vicar]

Cow’s Hill.

Bright Richard, Cow’s Hill inn Carr Thomas, Cow’s Hill inn, & tailor

Coulthard Thos. shopkeeper, & post office

Dalton Robert, clogger

Fairless Joseph, blacksmith

Graham Robert, boot & shoe maker

Kidd John, butcher

Kidd Ralph, butcher

Peart Hannah (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Thompson Joseph, miller

LANE HEAD is a hamlet, half a mile north-west; COW’S HILL a village, half a mile south-east, and WEAR HEAD is a village $1\frac{1}{2}$ miles south-east. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have each a chapel at Wear Head, where also there is a reading-room and library supported by private contribution.

Parish Clerk, Isaac Peart.

POST & MONEY ORDER OFFICE & Savings Bank, Cow’s Hill.—Thomas Coulthard, receiver. Letters from Darlington arrive by the coach from Stanhope about 12 noon; dispatched at 3 p.m.

POST OFFICE, Wear Head.—Jacob Matthew Peart, postmaster. Letters arrive from Darlington. Cow’s Hill is the nearest money order office

POST OFFICE RECEIVING HOUSE, Lane Head.—Mrs. Margaret Walton, receiver

SCHOOLS:—

National (mixed), Wear Head, Joseph Coulthard, master; Miss Mary A. Coates, mistress

National (mixed), Lane Head, Thomas James, master

Wear Head Board School, James Rushton, master; Miss Isabel Robson, mistress

Lane Head.

Gibson William, Travellers’ Rest Humble Euphemia (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Vickers Ellen (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Walton Margaret (Mrs.), shopkeeper, & post office

Wear Head.

Fairless William

COMMERCIAL.

Featherstone John, farmer, Burnhope

Featherstone Jhn. jun. farmer, Burnhope

Featherstone Joseph, grocer & draper

Foster Robert

Harrison Joseph, butcher & farmer

Harrison Joseph, shopkeeper

Kell Robert, Queen’s Head Peart Jacob Matt. linen draper & tailor

Peart Joseph, farmer

Peart Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Prout William, miller

Routledge James, tailor

Sparke James, grocer & draper

Thompson Featherstone, shopkeeper

Thompson Thomas, joiner

Watson Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer