[DURHAM.] MIDDLETON ST. GEORGE. 460 POST OFFICE

,• t • Dent William, shoemaker The nearest money order office is at Watson Thomas, grocer, Herb ship Dixon John, joiner & parish clerk Middleton Letters arrive from Middletol1, which Ewbank J oseph, Three Tuns rorest. is the nearest money order office Forster Ralph, farmer Low Rev. John Low, M.A. Parsonage Newbiggin. Foster Jonathan, mason COMMERCIAJ,. Coatsworth Mrs. Mary Gardner .John, gardener to Timothy Allinson William, grocer Coatsworth Mr. William, Low houses Hutchinson, esq Anderson Hannah (Mrs.), farmer, Collinson Mr. Joseph Gibson Charles, farmer Midge holme COMMERClAL. Gibson John, farmer Barker Jonathan, Spm'tsman's Rest, Bell William, mine agent Helmer Joseph, surgeon Harwood Coatsworth Geo. farmer, Low houses Little Joseph, smelting agent' Bayles William, farmer, Dale head Coatsworth John, farmer, Low houses Lowes James, farmer Collinson Timothy, Miner's Success, Coatsworth Mark, farmer MelroseWm. schoolmaster &postmaster Harwood Coatsworth Phrebe (Mrs.),grocr.&drapr Nicholson Richard, farmer CousinThos. grocer, Green hill,Harwood Collinson Gibson, farmer Parkin John, farmer Currah Joseph, farmer, Valance lodge Collinson William, mason Parnaby John, farmer Gibson George, farmer, Widdy bank Gibson Robert & William, farmers Raine Joshua, farmer Heward John, farmer, Kirkhouse folds Gibson Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Raine Thomas, farmer HutchinsonMary(Mrs.),farmer,Beckhd Gibson William, blacksmith Richardson Robert, smelting agent Ireland J oseph, farmer, Hanging shaw Lee William, farmer, Friar house Robinson J oseph, farmer Robinson haac, farmer, Force garth J,owes Robel't, farmer Robinson J oseph, shopkeeper & butcher Robinson Jsaac, schoolmaster Nixon J oseph, farmer Robinson Mary (Miss), shopkepper Scott Stephen & Jacob, farmers, Whey Robinson Thomas, mine agent Robinson William, farmer syke Scott Martha (Mrs.), famler Smelt Mills, Governor & Company of Scott Thomas, farmer, High force Sutherland John, schoolmaster Stoddart Thomas, farmer Scott Thomas, High Force inn Towlson J oseph, farmer Stoddart Thomas, grocer &, butcher SwinbankAnn(Mrs.), farmer, Bridge ho Wearmouth Nicholas, draper & grocer Wall William, butcher Tarn Timothy, farmer, Wool Pits hill Weightman Henry, tailor. Letters arrive from at Teward John, farmer Wilson & Crawhall, proprietors of lead n a.m.; dispatched at ~ past 3 p.m. Watson Ann(Mrs.),farmer, Stonny hill mines MJ:DDLETON ST. GEORGE is a township and parish MIDDJ,ETON-ONE-Row is a village in the townsllip and 5 miles east from , 3 from , and 9 from parish of Middleton St. George. It is pleasantly situated 8tockton-on-Tees, in the deanery and ward of Stockton, on the north bank of the Tees, 5 miles from Darlington, Darlington union, and archdeaconry and bishopric of and consists principally of one long row of good houses. Durham. It is bounded on the south by the Tees, and the Owing to its proximity to the Dinsdale Baths, this place Stockton and Darlington railway passes at the extremity has much improved of late years; an inn on an extensive of the parish, and has a station at Fighting Cocks. scale has been built, and many private dwellings, suitable

The church of St. George is a small plain structure. The for the accommodation of respectable parties, have been • living is a discharged rectory, worth £100 per annum, with erected. An omnibus plies during the season between the about 11 acres of glebe land, in the patronage of Henry A. villag'e and the Fighting Cocks station on the Stockton and W. Cocks., Esq; the Rev. Henry Greaves is'the present Darlington Railway. incumbent. The Wesleyans have a place of worship here. OAT TREE is a hamlet 5~ miles east of Darlington, and The parish school was erected by subscription about the year derives its name from the sign of a public house. 1768. The population, in 1851, was 332, and the area 2,050 FIGHTING COCKS is a hamlet, partly in this and Low acres. The soil is a strong clay, and produces excellent Dinsdale parishes, situated on the Dal'lington and Yarm crops of wheat, beans, oats, &c. Henry A. W. Cocks, Esq., road, I mile from l\Iiddleton One Row. Here is a station is lord of the manor. on the Stockton and Darlington Railway. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Elliott Margaret (Mrs.), lodging house, Pallister (Mrs.), farmer, MiddletonOne Cocks HenryAndrew William, esq. Low Row Middleton hall Ferguson John, cartwright, Goose pool Palmer William, lodging 11011se, J\Iid- Crabtree Mrs. Middleton One Row Garrett Thomas, shoemaker, Middleton dleton One Row Darling Mr. Michael One Row Sewell Margaret & Ann (Misses), Hugill Mr. Jabez, Middleton One Row Hunter William, Queen's Head, & Davenporthotel,MiddletonOne Row Maud Mr. Charles, Middleton One Row farmer, Middleton One Row Soans Richd. gTocer, Middletn.One Row Robson Mrs. Middleton One Row Jackson Harriet (Mrs.), lodging house, Stockdale \Villiam, farmer, Middleton & postmistress, Middleton One Row One Row COMMERCIAL. J ackson J oseph, lodging house, Middle- Teasdale Robert, tailor & lodging house, Bowe John, common brewer, Oak tree ton One Row Middleton One Row Calvert John, farmer Johnson William, lodging house, Mid- Thornton George, farmer, Goose po?l Castle Robt. cornmiller, Fig'hting Cocks dleton One Row Thornton J olm, West Hartburn inn, Clark George, farmer, 'White house Moore Robert, Oak Tree 'inn, &black- & farmer, Goose pool Clayton John, farmer, West Hartburn smith, Oak tree Thornton Thomas, farmer, Foster house Darling Michael, boarding school, l\iid Moore 'Villiam, farmer, Scrog house Turnbull Ralph, farmer, Oak Tree ho dleton hall Ogden Michael, schoolmaster, Middle- Warmillgton Henry, butcher, Middle- Dixon Ann (Mrs.), lodging house, ton One Row ton One Row Middleton One Row Robinson Anthony, farmer, Church ho POST OFFICE.-Harriet Jackson, postmistress. Letters arrive from Darlington at 9 a.m.; dispatched at 4 p.m. Darlington is the nearest money order office MJD1UDGE is a small village and township in the parish of . Here is a small neat Primitive Metho­ of St. Andrew's Auckland, but now a district for ecclesias- dist Chapel, also a National school. The population, in tical purposes, annexed to the parish of , distant 8 1851, was about 300. The towni'hip contains 1,116 acres; miles north of Darlington, 2~ east of Shildon, and 4 south rateable value, £1,298 17s. Sd. . COMMERCIAL. Hall George, farmer & butcher Sample Georg'e, saddler & harness ma Baimbridge William Hobson, tailor Hodgson Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Greenfld Scott -, farmer Bainbridg-e Jacob, farmer Hull Thomas,Bay H01'se, &blacksmith Smith Hannah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Runney Geo. master of National school NeWst George, farmer, East Thickley Smith Joseph, cabinet maker Clarkson Joseph, farmer, 'Villiamfield Oliver Mary (Mrs.), King's Arms Taylor John, shoemaker DavisonJhn.Masons'Arms,& stonemsn Ord Geor:re, farmer, Burn hill Letters throu~h Darlington by foot Dent Isaac, farmer, Horndale Pallister Thomas, flhoemaker post from Aycli:tl:e station Graham J oseph, joiner &cabinet maker Richelieu Thomas, cartwright is a large agricultural parish, em- The church of St. Peter is a plain, small, and ancient build­ bracing the townships of HULAM-CUl\I-SHERATON, HUT- ing of stone, consisting of nave and chancel, with small bel­ TON HENRY, and MONK HESLEDEN. The latter is a small turret at west end, and 2 bells. The reg-ister dates from village situated in and upon the side of a deep-wooded dene 1578. The living' is a vicarage, value £200 yearly, in the or valley, 2~ miles east-by-south-east from gift of the Dean and Chapter of Durha1u; the Rev. William station, and 1~ from the sea; it is in Easington ward and Hayes, M.A., is the vicar. Hardwick Hall, formerly one of union, the northern division ofthe county, the archdeaconry the seats of the Duke of Cleveland, is a large plain bricks and bishopric of Durham, and the archbishopric of York. building, situated on an eminence, about l~ miles north ft'om