Enjoy a glimpse of history about Willington in County Durham, North East England, UK.
The Post Office Directory of Durham and Northumberland
by Kelly and Company
Published in 1879
WILLINGTON is a township, village and ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1858 from the parish of Brancepeth, having a station on the North Eastern railway and situated on the north bank of the river Wear, 4 miles north of Bishop Auckland and 9 west from Wolsingham, in the Southern division of the county, northwest division of Darlington ward, Durham union and county court district, rural deanery of Darlington (northern division), archdeaconry and diocese of Durham. The village is lighted with gas. The church of St. Stephen, a Gothic stone structure, was enlarged and restored in the years of 1869 and 1873 at a cost of £898; it has chancel and nave and tower containing 5 bells; there are sittings for 350 persons. The living is a rectory, yearly value £300, in the gift of the rector of Brancepeth, and held by the Rev. Frederick W. Ruxton. There are places of worship for Catholics, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists and the New Connexion Methodists. There are very extensive collieries around this village, of which Messrs. Strakers and Love are the largest proprietors and have a great number of coke ovens. Viscount Boyne is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is clayey; subsoil, stone. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area of the township is 1,485 acres; rateable value, £13,613; and the population in 1871 was 4,385.
Post, Money Order & Telegraph Office, Savings Bank & Annuity & Insurance Office (Railway sub-office).—Anthony Sayer, postmaster. Letters received per rail at 6.40 a.m.; dispatched at 6.30 p.m
Police Station, John Christison, resident sergeant
Town Crier, Matthew Golding
Schools:—
National, Andrew Allan, master; Mrs. Elizabeth Allan, mistress
Catholic, Miss Ginks, mistress
Railway Station, William Dixon, station master
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