Enjoy a glimpse of history about Shadforth in County Durham, England, UK.
The Post Office Directory of Durham and Northumberland
by Kelly and Company
Published in 1879
SHADFORTH is a township and ecclesiastical parish, formed from Pittington parish in 1841, 5 miles east from Durham, and 2 south-east from Sherburn railway station on the North Eastern railway, situated in a valley, through which runs a small rippling brook called the Shadforth Beck, which flows westward to the river Wear, in the northern division of the county, south division of Easington ward, Durham union and county court district, rural deanery of Easington, archdeaconry and diocese of Durham. The church of St. Cuthbert is a stone building in the Early English style, and consisting of chancel and nave, without aisles: it was erected and consecrated in 1839. The register dates from the year 1839. The living is a rectory, yearly value £450, including 233 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Durham, and held by the Rev. Thomas Thornton, M.A. of University College, Durham. The Primitive Methodists have chapels here, and the Wesleyans have one. William Standish Carr-Standish, esq. is lord of the manor, and the Rev. T. Thornton, M.A. Mr. T. Crawford, Mr. Robert Moon, Mr. John Clark, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and Capt. Hogg are the principal landowners. The soil is light, sandy and loamy; the subsoil is limestone. The chief crops are wheat, oats, potatoes, and turnips. The area of the township is 2,872 acres, and of the ecclesiastical parish 3,925; rateable value, £6,760, and the population of the ecclesiastical parish in 1871 was 2,228, and of the township 1,064.
Ludworth, a populous colliery village, is situated about three-quarters of a mile north-east from the village of Shadforth. Ludworth colliery is worked by the Hartlepool Collieries Co. Limited, and its produce is shipped at Hartlepool. Ludworth Tower, which stands near a rivulet at the head of a small valley, is constructed of rude masonry, and contains a vaulted dungeon, and an upper chamber lighted by a few narrow casements, but it is fast falling into ruin.
Parish Clerk, Edward Chapman.
PILLAR BOX.—Letters arrive from Durham, at 10 a.m.; dispatched at 3.40 p.m. Thornley is the nearest money order office
Shadforth.
Thornton Rev. Thos. M.A. The Rectory
COMMERCIAL.
Atkinson James Smith, grocer
Atkinson Wm. farmer, Cassop smithy
Bell Robert, greengrocer
Blench Ralph, farmer, Fatclose house
Brown John, joiner
Burton John, farmer
Clark John, landowner & farmer, Oxclose
Crawford Thomas, farmer, Sunny side
Hall Robt. lime burner, Running water
Harrison George, shoe maker
Hudson Anthony, frmr. Strawberry hill
Hunter Cuthbert, farmer, Hare hill
Liddle James, grocer
McBriar John, shoe maker
Morgan William, Commercial inn Nicholson John, blacksmith
Noon Joseph Dobson, farmer & land owner, Crowhouse
Oates Thomas, farmer, High croft
Park James, Moon Arms Proud William, cabinet maker
Rain John, farmer
Richey Peter, carrier
Ridley Joseph, shopkeeper
Scott Thos. farmer, Coldknuckles farm
Smith Richard; farmer, Crimerigg
Thubron Robert Francis, Plough inn, joiner, cartwright, smith &c Watson Michael, farmer, Hill house
White John, grocer
Whittingham Thomas, stonemason
Wilson Joseph, blacksmith
York Thomas, Saddle inn Young George, farmer, Sandhole
Young Thomas, farmer
Ludworth.
Fleming John, Queen’s Head Hall Alexander, grocer
Jameson Ann Mrs. Ludworth inn Jobling William, grocer
Moody Joseph, Standish Arms Ramsey Wm. farmer, Ludworth tower
The Original Hartlepool Collieries Co. Limited (William Robson, resident viewer), Ludworth colliery
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