Enjoy a glimpse of history about Hunwick in County Durham, England, UK.
The Post Office Directory of Durham and Northumberland
by Kelly and Company
Published in 1879
HUNWICK with part of the township of NEWTON CAP forms an ecclesiastical district taken out of the parish of St. Andrews Auckland in 1845, situated about $2\frac{1}{2}$ miles west-north-west from Bishop Auckland, in the Southern division of the county, north-west division of Darlington ward, Auckland union and county court district, rural deanery of the northern division of Darlington, archdeaconry and diocese of Durham: here is a station on the Bishop Auckland branch of the North Eastern railway. The church of St. Paul was erected in 1844, upon a site given by the late Mrs. Bell, and cost £700, and was enlarged in 1854; it consists of chancel, nave, and 1 bell; the stained window in the east end was given by Mrs. Spencer, of Yarm; there are also two memorial windows by Mrs. Spencer, and another to the three children of the Rev. J. E. Richards: there are sittings for 300 persons. The register dates from the year 1846. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £300, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of Bishop Auckland, and held by the Rev. James Richards, M.A. of University College, Durham. Here are National schools and a master’s house, built on a site given by the late Matthew Bell, esq. The Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Wesleyan New Connexion have places of worship here. There are several collieries and brickworks in the neighbourhood: also a stone quarry worked by the trustees of the late Patrick Campbell. The Rough Lea Sanitary Pipe works are situated here. Helmington Hall is a very handsome residence near this village, at present unoccupied. The principal landowners are Henry Bell, esq. of Woolsington, Northumberland, Mr. Greenwell, of Red Barns, the trustees of John Robson, esq. and trustees of Rev. George Fielding. The soil is clayey; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat and turnips, and grass. The area is 1,300 acres; rateable value, £12,639; and the population in 1871 was 1,558.
Sexton, Robert Iley.
POST OFFICE RECEIVING HOUSE.—Mrs. Ann Oyston, receiver. Letters from Willington, arrive at 8.30 a.m.; dispatched at 4.30 p.m. Willington is the nearest money order office
Assistant Overseer & Tax Collector, George Wright, Lane ends
SCHOOLS:—
National, George Hood, master; Miss Butterfield, infants’ mistress
Infants’, North Bitchburn, Miss Franklin, mistress
Railway Station, George Watson, station master
Richards Rev. James, M.A. Vicarage
Simpson Rev. Robert, curate
COMMERCIAL.
Alderson John, Miners’ Arms, New Hunwick
Binns John, draper
Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. Limited, Hunwick & Newfield collieries (Mark Hall, viewer & manager)
Buckley Martha (Mrs.), Two Hunters Bulmer Bertram, brewer, Quarry burn
Campbell Patck. (trustees) quarry ownrs
Curry Ralph, overman at North Bitchburn colliery
Dawson Ralph, general dealer
Dixon William, grocer, Quarry burn
Dowson Wm. master of coke ovens at North Bitchburn colliery
English Jhn. Brewers’ inn, Quarry brn
Fell Geo. Wheatsheaf, Lane ends
Fletcher Henry, farmer
Frost Henry, shopkeeper
Goy Samuel, Joiners’ Arms Hedley William, farmer, Cryndle dykes
Heslop James, butcher, Lane ends
Heslop Robert, grocer, Lane ends
Heslop Simpson, butcher
Hogg Wm. Lambert & Henry, engineers
Hook John, shopkeeper
James Richard, shoe maker
Johnson William, blacksmith
Kidson Ellen (Mrs.) & Robert, grocers & drapers, Lane ends
Law William, licensed hawker
Lloyd & Co. cllry. ownrs. Wst. Hunwick
Longstaff Thomas, shoe maker
Lunn John, mason
Marr Robert, miller, Furnace mill
Marriner Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, Hunwick hall
Martin Joseph, grocer, Hunwick edge
Medcalf Jsph. greengrocer, Lane ends
Moore Richard, boot maker, Lane ends
Musgrave James, beer retailer
Nicholson John, bottled beer merchant, Lane ends
Norman Geo. coke burner, Lane ends
Proud John, farmer, Rough Lea
Raine Chas. & Alex. grocers, Lane ends
Raine Wm. grocer & draper, Lane ends
Richardson John, Railway hotel, & brick & tile maker
Rough Lea Sanitary Pipe Works (Matthew Smith, manager)
Scott Thomas, farmer, Quarry burn
Scurr Charles, farmer, Rough Lea
Shaw Arthur, grocer, Lane ends
Stitt John, grocer, North Bitchburn
Stewart John Worthy, joiner
Stobart Hy. & Co. (Cornelius Widdas, viewer), Rough Lea colliery; head office, Etherley
Stobbs Hall, farmer, Farmly
Stobbs Joseph, farmer, Beechburn
Thompson Robert, draper, Lane ends
Watson William, shopkeeper
Waugh Mary (Mrs.), Helmington inn, Lane ends
Wetherell William, butcher
Wilson Edward, joiner
Wood Richard, grocer
Wood Robert, greengrocer
Wreford Fredk. grer. & draper, Lane ends
Wright Geo. tailor & assistant overseer & tax collector, Lane ends
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