Satley, County Durham: People and Places of 1879

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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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