Enjoy a glimpse of history about Satley in County Durham, North East England, UK.
The Post Office Directory of Durham and Northumberland
by Kelly and Company
Published in 1879
SATLEY is an ecclesiastical parish formed from the parish of LANCHESTER; the parish comprises SATLEY, CORNSAY, the BUTSFIELD and HEDLEY HOPE: Satley is 11 miles north-west from Durham, and 5 north-east from Wolsingham, in the Northern division of the county, west division of Chester ward, Lanchester union, Durham county court district, western division of Chester rural deanery, Durham archdeaconry and diocese, situated on the road from Durham and Newcastle to Wolsingham. The church is a stone building in the Early English style, having a nave and tower, to which a chancel was added in the year 1870-71, by the Greenwell family; at the same time the church was thoroughly restored and re-seated with open seats; a handsome stained window has been purchased by subscription, in memory of the late incumbent, the Rev. Joseph Thompson, and also a stained window in memory of the late John Greenwell, esq. of Broomshields. The register dates from 1797. The living is a vicarage, worth £300 yearly, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Durham and held by the Rev. Joseph Price de Pledge, M.A. of University College, Durham. There is a school for both sexes, endowed with £10 a year. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor. Thomas William Greenwell, esq. is the chief landowner. The soil and subsoil are clay. The crops are wheat, barley, oats and some land is in pasture. The area is 901 acres; rateable value, £578; and the population in 1871 was 171.
POST OFFICE.—Michael Buckham, receiver. Letters from Darlington arrive at 11.15 a.m.; dispatched at 3 p.m. Cornsay Colliery, Lanchester & Tow Law are the nearest money order offices
School, William Heaviside, master
Butsfield is a township and scattered village, in the ecclesiastical district of Satley, 4½ miles south-east from Shotley Bridge and 4½ west from Lanchester, in Lanchester parish, Shotley Bridge county court district. Woodlands, in this township, formerly a barren waste, is now enclosed and contains a large extent of thriving plantations. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor. The soil and subsoil are clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, turnips and pasture. The area is 2,422 acres; and the population in 1861 was 319 and in 1871, 331.—Letters from Darlington. Lanchester is the nearest money order office.
Cornsay is a township in the ecclesiastical district of Satley and parish of Lanchester, 6½ miles from Wolsingham, in the north-west division of Darlington ward. There is a school endowed with £30 a year, and £5 yearly from the trustees of Lord Crewe's charity. Here are almshouses for six men and six women, built and endowed by William Russell, esq. of Brancepeth Castle, in 1811. The trustees of Sir William Clavering, the trustees of Ushaw College and Viscount Boyne, are chief landowners. Viscount Boyne is lord of the manor. The soil and subsoil are composed principally of freestone and marl. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats and there is some pasture. The area is 2,809 acres, 800 of which are moorland; rateable value, £3,667; the population in 1861 was 367, in 1871 about 1,400.—Letters through Durham. Cornsay Colliery is the nearest money order office.
Hedley Hope is a township in the parish of Lanchester, but in the ecclesiastical district of Satley, from which it is distant about 4 miles in a south-easterly direction; the nearest railway station is at Tow Law, on the Stockton and Darlington section of the North Eastern railway. Here are extensive collieries. Edward Taylor-Smith, esq. is principal landowner; the area is 1,506 acres; rateable value, £1,325; and the population in 1871 about 430.—Letters are delivered by messenger from Durham; there is a PILLAR BOX, cleared between 12 and 1. The nearest money order offices are at Tow Law and Cornsay Colliery.
Satley.
de Pledge Rev. Joseph Price, M.A., J.P. Vicarage
Greenwell John M. Broomshields
Greenwell Mrs. Broomshields
Greenwell Thomas Wm. Broomshields
Taylor-Smith George Garry, Broadwood
COMMERCIAL.
Buckham Michael, grocer, draper & joiner
Disebery John, miller & farmer
Dixon George, Royal Oak Hedley Robert, blacksmith
Howe John, brewer, Greenfield
Laugh William, blacksmith
Millburn Joseph, farmer
Shaud John, farmer, Steeley grange
Shaun James, farmer, Steeley
Shotten Anthony, farmer, Land house
Temperley Robson, farmer
Walker Edward, Wheatsheaf, & farmer
Walker George, farmer
Wall George, farmer, Hall hill
Wall Mark, farmer
Wilson William, Punch Bowl
Butsfield.
Foster Nesbitt, farmer
Garfoot William, farmer, Ward’s end
Hall Robert, farmer, Butsfield Leaze
Hardy Thomas, farmer, Wheatley grange
Milburn John, farmer, Adelphi
Nichol Thomas, farmer, West Shields
Nichol William, farmer, Drover house
Nicholson Hy. farmer, Butsfield burn
Nicholson John, farmer, Broomshields
Ross James, farmer
Walker Edwd. Dean House, & farmer
Willis John, farmer
Willis Joseph, farmer
Cornsay.
Gillow Rev. William [Catholic]
Alder George, farmer, grocer & draper, Cornsay grange
Allison Watson, Moor Cock Ayre John, farmer, Low mill
Batey William, farmer, Lane foot
Cumming William, farmer
Ferens & Love, colliery owners
Garraway Joseph, boot & shoe maker
Gascoigne John, blacksmith
Hodgson William, farmer, Stow house
Hull Thomas, farmer, South Shields
Johnson William, farmer
Ridley Wheatley, joiner
Short Robert, farmer
Starforth Thomas, farmer, Low row
Suddes Joseph, Black Horse
Thompson Robert, farmer
Wall Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Wall Mark, tailor
Wall Richard, boot & shoe maker
Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Limited, offices, Tow Law
Hedley Hope.
Brownless Dorothy (Mrs.), farmer, Hedley hill
Elliot George, farmer, High West house
Garthwaite Jonathan, farmer, Bells ho
Holroyd John & Son, farmers, Low West house
Pickering Henry, farmer
Samuelson, Bennett & Co. colly. owners
Snowball John Wooller, farmer, Hall
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