Iveston, County Durham

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The Post Office Directory of Durham and Northumberland

by Kelly and Company

Published in 1879

IVESTONE is a village and township containing the hamlet of CROOK HALL, and the greater portion of the extensive village of LEADGATE; and was in 1863 formed into an ecclesiastical parish, from the parish of Lanchester, and includes part of the township of Greencroft and Medomsley, in the parish of Lanchester; Ivestone is 12 miles south-west from Gateshead and 12 north-west from Durham, in the Northern division of the county, west division of Chester ward, union of Lanchester, Shotley Bridge county court district, Chester rural deanery, archdeaconry and diocese of Durham. The church of St. Ives is a plain edifice of stone, situate at Redwell hills, erected in 1867, and consists of chancel, nave, and aisles, and will seat about 500 persons. The register dates from the year 1868. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £300, with residence, in the gift of the Crown and Bishop of Durham alternately, and held by the Rev. Joseph Whyte Mitchell, M.A. of King’s College, Aberdeen. There is a Catholic school for both sexes at High Brooms, and a school for boys and girls at Leadgate. There are chapels for Catholics, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, the former at High Brooms, and the two latter at Leadgate. There are coal mines in this township, belonging to the proprietors of the Consett ironworks, and an iron and brass foundry belonging to the same company. Sir Henry A. Clavering, bart. of Axwell Hall, near Newcastle, Edward Taylor Smith, esq. who is lord of the manor, George Nicholson, esq. John Clavering, esq. and the Consett Iron Company are chief landowners. The soil is clay; the subsoil is clay and stone. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans, and pasture. The area of the township is 1,682 acres; rateable value, £9,582; the population in 1871 was 3,895. The area of the parish is 2,882 acres, and the population in 1871 was 3,890.

POST, MONEY ORDER & TELEGRAPH OFFICE, Savings Bank, Insurance & Annuity Office, Leadgate (railway sub-office).—Edward Kinleside, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive at 7.30 a.m.; departure, 5.40 p.m

LEADGATE LOCAL BOARD.

Clerk, Mathew Copeland

Medical Officer, George Renton

Surveyor, Thomas S. Longstaff

Inspector of Nuisances, Thomas S. Longstaff

Collector, George Hawden

SCHOOLS:—

National (mixed), Redwell hills, William Brears, master; Miss Mary Jane Turnbull, infants’ mistress

Parochial, Ivestone, Thomas Parker, master

Catholic, High Brooms, Miss Ann McDermott & Miss Ann Sade, mistresses

Wesleyan (day), Leadgate, Edwin James Harding, master

Ivestone.

COMMERCIAL.

Anderson William, tailor

Armstrong William, blacksmith

Bell William, farmer

Bellamy Edmund, landowner & farmer, Castledean

Bellerby Michael, farmer, Highwood side

Brown William, landowner & farmer

Cheeseman William, grocer

Clark Charles, beer retailer

Foreman John, farmer, Stonyheap

Garthwaite William, farmer, Satley High stoop

Johnson Robert, farmer

Kinleside William, agent to Colliery Coke Co

Pickering Ralph, farmr. Lowerwoodside

Rippon George, farmer

Ritson Hy. farmer & brick maker, Carr ho

Robson Matthew, farmer

Sheaner James, butcher

Simpson John, Ivestone New inn

Smith Andrew, farmer, Crookhall

Stokoe John, joiner

Summerbell Ellen (Mrs.), farmer, Woody close

Surties Anthony, grocer

Todd William, farmer, Crook hill

Ward Jonathan, boot maker

Wilson John, farmer

Leadgate.

[Names marked thus * are in Consett parish]

Bruce James

Harrison Thomas

Kearney Rev. Francis Canon [Catholic]

The Brooms

Longstaff Thomas

Mitchell Rev. Joseph Whyte, M.A. [vicar], Redwell hills

Renton George, M.D

COMMERCIAL.

Armstrong William, Black Bull Aynsley Wm. grocer & hardwareman & agent for W. & A. Gilbey, wine & spirit merchants

Beatie John, boot & shoe maker

Bellerby Isabella (Mrs.), drapery dealer

Bland Mrs. Margaret, grocer

Blench Anthony, farmer, Low Brooms & Stonyhead

Brown Henry, farmer, Redwell hills

Brown Wm. agent to Consett iron works

Carr Richard, agent to N. E. R. Co.

Christie Ralph, Wheatsheaf Clement Thomas, joiner

Co-operative Store (Thos. Foster, man)

*Consett Iron Co. Limited (William Jenkins, general manager); Davidson John, butcher

Davidson John, grocer

*Elliott Ellen (Mrs.), Commercial inn *Fleming Thomas, grocer

*Foreman Thomas, veterinary surgeon

Foster Thos. man. to Co-operative stores

Hindmarsh Robt. & McPherson, grocers

James John, tailor & draper

Kinleside Edward, grocer & provision dealer, & post office

Lammonby Thomas, tailor

Lee John, greengrocer

Lee William (viewer), Eden colliery

Longstaff Thomas, Masons’ Arms Lowes John, Bradley Arms Lumley Maria (Mrs.), Golden Lion Moyle Michael, greengrocer

*Murray Patrick, drapery dealer

*Muse Nicholas, blacksmith

Nicholson Edward & Sons, linen drapers

Nicholson George & Charles, farmers & slaters; & at Newcastle

Noble Ann (Mrs.), grocer

Parker James, farmer & butcher High Brooms

Pinkney John, blacksmith

Postle Henry, stationer

Renton George, M.D. surgeon

*Richardson Joseph, grocer

Richardson Sarah (Mrs.), milliner

Robinson John, shoe maker

Robson Robert, painter & glazier

Rowe Thomas, baker & confectioner

Shaw Robert Walton & Atkinson, woollen drapers

Shield John, beer retailer

Steel John, beer retailer

Tait George, watch maker

Tait William, engineer to Consett Iron Co

Temple George, Queen Thompson John, farmer

Todd Edward, grocer & butcher

Todd William, shopkeeper

*Turner George, Coach & Horses *Ward Christopher, grocer

Wilson John, shopkeeper

*White Henry, farmer, Pont head

Willey Mathew, grocer