Enjoy a glimpse of history about Sherburn and Sherburn Hospital in County Durham, North East England, UK.
The Post Office Directory of Durham and Northumberland
by Kelly and Company
Published in 1879
SHERBURN, a township formerly in the parish of Pittington, containing the town and ecclesiastical parish of Sherburn formed in 1869, and the village of Sherburn Hill attached to the parish of Shadforth, about 1837: it has a station on the North Eastern railway, 3 miles east from Durham, in the Northern division of the county, the south-west division of the ward of Easington, union and county court district of Durham, rural deanery of Easington, archdeaconry and diocese of Durham. The church of Old Sherburn, St. Mary, was erected in 1872: it is in the Early Decorated style, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, and a low tower. The register dates from the year 1872. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £300, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Durham, and held by the Rev. Henry James Richmond, M.A. of University College, Durham. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have each a chapel here. There is a National school; the public reading-room is supplied with the daily and weekly journals. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor and the principal landowners. The soil is light and loamy, and in some parts clay; the subsoil, limestone. The area is 1,303 acres; rateable value, £10,225: and the population in 1871 was 2,175.
SHERBURN HILL is a colliery village about 1 mile east, where there is a Wesleyan and a Primitive Methodist chapel, a National school, and also a school supported by the Earl of Durham.
Parish Clerk, John Harrison.
POST, MONEY ORDER & TELEGRAPH OFFICE & Savings Bank.—Robert Fawcett, sub-postmaster. Letters from Durham arrive at 8.15 a.m.; dispatched at 5.15 p.m
SCHOOLS:—
National, Sherburn, Albert Stanley, master
National, Sherburn Hill, Miss Maria Pickersgill, mistress
Earl Durham’s, Sherburn Hill, Thomas Robson, master
Railway Station, John Robinson, station master
CARRIERS TO DURHAM.—Richy, every saturday; Pattison, from Sherburn Hill, every saturday
Booth Mrs Johnson Rd. Sheraton, Sherburn hall Richmond Rev. Hy. Jas. M.A. [vicar]
COMMERCIAL.
Aisbett John, butcher; Sherburn hill
Allison James, butcher
Bamlet George, butcher, West Sherburn Bamlett John, Bay Horse, & blacksmith, West Sherburn Brown Robt. Crispin’s inn, Sherburn hl Chapman Wm. & Son, tailors, Sherburn hl Craggs J. Commercial inn, Sherburn hl Crosby Robert, butcher, Sherburn hill
Dent Jas. Spotted Cow, Dragon villa Durham Earl of, coal owner (Thomas Crawford, viewer), Sherburn hill & Littletown collieries
Dobson Thomas, Railway hotel Dunbar Robert, Grey Horse Elliott Bartholomew, Green Tree, Sherburn hill Fish Thomas, shopkeeper
Franklin Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Sherburn hill Gibson William, butcher
Glass Barbara (Mrs.), Colliery hotel Greenwell John George, grocer
Harrison Alexander Thomas, surgeon
Hall Robert, farmer & lime burner Harrison John, tailor
Hepburn George, Moor Hen Hope George, shoe maker
Hunter George, shopkeeper
Hutton Roger, Earl of Durham Arms Johnson George, Black Bird Kirton Jane (Mrs.), farmr. We. Sherburn Lowery John, Fox & Hounds Lawton Ralph J. grocer & draper, Sherburn hill Nicholson Harle, joiner & cartwright Nicholson Sarah (Mrs.), grocer
Oswald Peter, farmer
Parkinson George, grocer
Pearcy George, blacksmith
Purdy Thomas, grocer, Sherburn hill Ritchie James, Seven Stars Robson Thomas, Lambton Arms, Sherburn hill Ryans Michael, Londonderry Arms, Sherburn hill Simpson William, Foresters’ Arms Smith Henry, Black Boy Smith John, farmer
Smith William, grocer, Sherburn hill Woodward Thomas, George & Dragon ---
SHERBURN HOSPITAL is a township not attached to any parish, in the Northern division of the county, south division of Easington ward, union and county court district of Durham, about 2½ miles east-by-south-east from that city. The only place of importance is the Hospital, founded by Bishop Pudsey in 1184, for the reception of 65 lepers, to be governed by a master and chaplain. In the time of Queen Elizabeth, leprosy being extinct, Dr. Chandler, then bishop, drew up new ordinances, which were sanctioned by Parliament, providing for the maintenance of 30 brethren, 15 to be in-door brethren and 15 to be out-door brethren. The chapel is a handsome building, the tower of which is Norman, with a nave containing three good windows. The present master and chaplain is the Rev. Henry A. Mitton, M.A. of Christ College, Cambridge, formerly vicar of St. Andrew Auckland. The income of the charity is upwards of £6,000. The area is 730 acres; rateable value, £3,081; and the population in 1871 was 142.—Letters through Durham by foot-post. Durham is the nearest money order office.
Mitton Rev. Henry A. M.A. Durham Earl of, coal owner Gillespie Robert W. medical officer to Sherburn Hospital Jordison Thomas, farmer
Peat Ann (Mrs.), miller
Sanderson John, farmer
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