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Middleton-in-Teesdale, County Durham: People and Places in 1879

 Enjoy a glimpse of history about Middleton-in-Teesdale in County Durham, England, UK.

The Post Office Directory of Durham and Northumberland

by Kelly and Company

Published in 1879


MIDDLETON-IN-TEESDALE is a town, township and parish, having a station on the Tees Valley railway, 10 miles north-west from Barnard Castle, 12 south-west from Stanhope, and 253 from London, in the Southern division of the county, south-west division of Darlington ward, Teesdale union, Barnard Castle county court district, rural deanery of Darlington, archdeaconry and diocese of Durham. The town is situated on the north bank of the river Tees and contains two regular streets, and the houses are scattered along the sides of the hills on which the town is built. The old church of St. Mary the Virgin has been pulled down and a new one is being built on the same site, with the addition of a north aisle: the design is by C. Hodgson Fowler, esq. of Durham; the style Early Decorated; the best windows of the old church have been copied in the new design. The register dates from the year 1580. The living is a rectory, with residence and about 50 acres of glebe land, yearly value £740 (out of which £100 is paid to Egglestone), in the patronage of the Crown, and held by the Rev. John Milner, m.a. of Queen’s College, Oxford, and chaplain in ordinary to H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh. The parish school has been closed, and the funds from the endowment are administered under a scheme of the Charity Commissioners. The Wesleyans, Baptists and Primitive Methodists have chapels. Here are several lead mines, the property of the Duke of Cleveland and Timothy Hutchinson, esq. which are extensively worked by the London Lead Company, who have erected schools, and a reading room for the use of the workmen. The Duke of Cleveland, who is lord of the manor, Timothy Hutchinson and Miss Hill are the principal landowners. The area of the township is 10,434 acres; rateable value, £13,939; the population of Middleton township in 1871 was 2,386.

Parish Clerk & Sexton, John Heatherington.

POST, MONEY ORDER OFFICE, Savings Bank & Annuity Office.—Mrs. Ann Beadle, receiver. Letters arrive from Darlington & Barnard Castle at 8.45 a.m.: dispatched at 4.30 p.m

INSURANCE AGENT—Royal, J. Purves, Market place

SCHOOLS:—

A school board has been formed & an infant school will be built

Lead Company’s, William Oddie, master

Railway Station, Francis Edmund Gibson, station master

Middleton-in-Teesdale.

PRIVATE RESIDENTS.

Bainbridge Capt. Charles Edward

Bainbridge Mrs

Bainbridge Robert, Middleton house

Bell John, Hude

Clapham Rev.Henry Horace [Wesleyan]

Elliott Rev. Jhn. [Primitive Methodist]

Fleming John, m.d.

French Robert, Hude

Horne Miss

Horsfield James William, m.d.

Milner Rev. John, m.a. Rectory

COACH to High Force, daily in the summer; John Coltman (successor to Mrs. Beadle) and Robert Beadle, proprietors

CARRIER TO BARNARD CASTLE.—John Thompson, mon. wed. & fri

Newbiggin is a township and small village in the parish of Middleton-in-Teesdale, 2 1/2 miles north-west, and is situated on the north bank of the Tees. Here is a National school, which has an endowment of £11 yearly for coals, the gift of W. Tarn, esq. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have chapels. There are charities of small yearly value. The Duke of Cleveland is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The area is 4,627 acres; rateable value, £1,410; the population in 1871 was 645.

National School, Robert Henry Trenham, master

Forest and Frith-with-Harwood form an extensive township, commencing about 4 miles north-west from Middleton, and terminating on the borders of Westmoreland, near the source of the Tees: it consists of three parts, known as Ettersgill, Middle Forest and Harwood, and was formed into an ecclesiastical parish in 1875. St. James’ church, at Forest, is a Gothic structure. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £254, with residence, in the gift of the Duke of Cleveland and held by the Rev. Edward Good. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have chapels here. In this township are the Cauldron Snout and High Force Cataract, objects of great interest, and which attract a large number of visitors in the summer season.

HARWOOD is a large district occupying the western extremity of this township, where there are many lead mines, in which great numbers of the inhabitants are employed. St. Jude’s church, at Harwood, a chapel of ease to Forest and Frith, was rebuilt in 1849; and a school rebuilt in 1853; the two forming one building, the dividing wall of which is surmounted by a bell gable: they were both erected by the Duke of Cleveland. The school has an endowment of £4 yearly, and is supported by the Duke of Cleveland, who is lord of the manor and principal landowner in the township of Forest and Frith, which has an area of 17,270 acres; rateable value, £2,076; and the population in 1871 was 792.

SCHOOLS:—

Harwood, Joseph Peadon, master

Forest, William Stockburn Grey, master









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