Enjoy a glimpse of history about Wingate in County Durham, North East England, UK.
The Post Office Directory of Durham and Northumberland
by Kelly and Company
Published in 1879
WINGATE, or WINGATE GRANGE, is a parish and station on the Ferry Hill and Hartlepool branch of the North Eastern railway, formed in 1843 from the adjoining parishes of Kelloe and Castle Eden for ecclesiastical purposes, 256 miles from London by rail. The village is about 9 miles east from Durham, 10 north-west from Hartlepool, and 14 south-west from Sunderland, in the Northern division of the county, Easington ward, union and county court district of Durham, rural deanery of Easington, Durham diocese, and is situated on the road from Stockton to Durham. Trinity church is a stone building erected in 1840: it consists of chancel, nave, aisles and turret with 1 bell: in 1870 the interior was restored, re-seated with open benches and heated by hot water, at a cost of about £380, including a good organ: there is a small elegant font close to the entrance, after a design by Chantrey: there are sittings for about 500 persons. The register dates from the year 1840. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £300, with good house, in the gift of the Bishop of Durham, and held by the Rev. Edward Neville Valentine Boydell, of University College, Durham. The Vicarage was erected in 1845; the expenses were defrayed partly by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and partly by private subscription: it was enlarged and outhouses built in 1872. There is a Board school erected in lieu of National schools for boys, girls and infants. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists; also a literary and reading society, having library and reading-room. There is a small brewery and brick manufactories in the neighbourhood; and an extensive colliery here, worked by the executors of the late John Gully, esq. and carried on under the style of The Owners of the Wingate Grange colliery. Wingate Grange, the residence of William Armstrong, jun. esq. is situated on an eminence west of the village. The principal landowners are the trustees of the late John Gully, esq. and the Wilkinson family. The soil is clay and gravel; subsoil, limestone. The principal crops are wheat, oats, peas, potatoes and turnips. The acreage is 3,968; rateable value, £11,621; and the population in 1861 was 1,995, and in 1871 was 3,104.
Parish Clerk, John Monk.
Post, Money Order & Telegraph Office & Savings Bank & Annuity & Insurance Office (Railway sub-office).—James Eglestone, postmaster. Letters arrive by rail at 5.37 a.m.; dispatched at 6.45 p.m
Assistant Overseer, Ralph Harrison
SCHOOL BOARD.
Chairman, William Hewitson
Clerk, Robert Foster
Board School, Thomas Willis, master; Miss Elizabeth Wallace Tindale, mistress: Miss Mary Ann Raeburn, infants' mistress
Railway Station, George Goodall, station master
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