Redmarshall, County Durham: People and Places of 1879

 Enjoy a glimpse of history about Redmarshall in County Durham, North East England, UK.

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The Post Office Directory of Durham and Northumberland

by Kelly and Company

Published in 1879

REDMARSHALL is a township, small village and parish, 4½ miles north-west from Stockton-on-Tees, 9 from Darlington, and 6 from Sedgefield, in the Southern division of the county, south-west division of Stockton ward, Stockton union and county court district, rural deanery of Stockton, archdeaconry and diocese of Durham. The church of St. Cuthbert is a small plain building, with chancel, nave, south aisle and square tower containing 3 bells. The register dates from 1564. The living is a rectory, yearly value £378, with residence, and 7 acres of glebe land, in the patronage of the Crown and held by the Rev. George Brown, of University College, Durham. The rectory-house is an elegant Elizabethan building, erected in 1845 at a cost of £1,600. There are charities of about £2 yearly value. The manorial rights belong to the Marquis of Londonderry. The principal proprietors are the Marquis of Londonderry, Robert Wardell, John Eden, and James Senior, esqs. each of whom claims manorial rights over his own property. The soil is light and loamy, and produces excellent crops of wheat, oats, barley and turnips. The area is 956 acres; rateable value, £777; and the population in 1871 was 75.

Carlton is a village and township in the parish of Redmarshall, half a mile distant. Here is a station on the Hartlepool and Ferry Hill section of the North Eastern railway; also a Wesleyan chapel. The Bishop of Durham is lord of the manor. The area is 1,453 acres; rateable value, £3,741; the population in 1861 was 176, and in 1871, 327, the increase in which is accounted for by the fact that the workmen employed at the North of England Industrial Iron Work Company Limited, lodged here at the time of the census being taken, and who have since removed to the 32 houses erected at the works; the population in 1878 was estimated at 150.

Parish Clerk, Robert Thompson.

Letters by messenger from Stockton arrive at 10 a.m.; leave at 4 p.m.

Assistant Overseer & Rate Collector, Thomas Stephenson

Here is an efficient elementary school, conducted by Mrs. Margaret Tate

Railway Station, Thomas Bedford, station master

Redmarshall.

Brown Rev. George [rector]

Callender Henry, farmer

Harrison Robert, Ship inn Hughf Abraham, farmer

Kell Thomas & Sons, farmers

Stephenson Thomas, farmer

Tate John, joiner

Thompson Thomas, farmer

Carlton.

Wardell Robert Armstrong John, frmr. Carlton grange

Battensby George, farmer

Blenkinsop George, farmer, Coalgarth

Burdon John, wheelwright

Dawson John, farmer

Good Thomas, farm bailiff to John Hunton, esq

Hart William, farmer

Laing John, farmer

Robinson Thomas, farmer

Saddler Samuel A. tar manufacturer, Newfall tar works

Stephenson Thomas, farmer

Walton Thomas, Battensby, Smiths’ Arms, & blacksmith

Wardell Robert, farmer