DIRECTORY.] DURHAl\1. BURNMOOR. 59

:BROOM: is a parish in the Mid division of the county, DJ.vid Bruce, king of Scotland, encamped here on the union, county court district and petty sessional division day previous to the battle of N eville'.s Cross (Oct. of Durham, about r! miles east from Ushaw Moor I], 1346): the structure had already begun to fall into &ation in this parish, on the Deerness Valley branch decay in 1684, and has gradually disappeared. At .Auton of the North Eastern railway and west from Durham. is the reservoir, erected in 1878 by the Weardale and 'l'he Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the Shildon Water Co. for supplying the city of Durham manor, -and the Dl'an and Chapter of Durham and with water by gravitation. Here is an extensive colliery Ushaw College are the principal landowners. and coke o-.;·ens, worked by the Bearpark Coal and Coke BEARP.ARK (a corruption of "Beaurepaire ") is a Co. Limited .At Broompark a colliery was worked by populous colliery district, ecclesiastical and civil parish, the North Brancepeth Coal Co. Limited, but is now formed· under the provisions of the " Local Government (1914) closed. The soil is loam and clay; .subsoil, clay. Act, 1894.'' by an Order of the CWitton Gilbert on the Durham and Consett branch 3,260. of the North Eastern railwav. • Sexton, Isaac J amfrey . The church of St. Edmund, King and Martyr, built in 1879, at a cost of £2,8.)o, is a structure of brick in the Post & M. 0. Office, Broompark. Mrs. Elizabeth Bradley, Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south sub-postmistress. Letters through Durham arrive at porch and a western turret containing one bell : the 6.35 a.m. & 4·5 p.m.; dis-patch~d at B-40 a.m. & 6.ro churchyard was enlarged by the addition of one acre in p.m. ; no delivery on sund.::tys. Langley Moor & 1914: there are s-oo si.ttings. The register dates from Us-haw Moor, each 2 miles distant, are the nearest the year 1879. The living is a vicarage, net yearly telegraph offices value £300, with residence, in the gift vf the Dean and Post & M. 0. Office, Bearpark Colliery. Isaac Jamfrey, Chapter of Durham, and held since 1912 by the Rev. sub-postmaster. Letters through Durham arrive at Thomas Francis Palmer M . .A. of Durham Universitv.• 7 a.m. & 5.5o p.m.; dispatched at 1._3.5, 6.20 & 8.40 The area is 1,127 acres of land and 10 of water; rate- p.m.; no d-elivery on sundays. Ushaw Moor, 2 miles able V'alue, £15,735; the population in I9II was 1,758; distant, is the nearest telegraph office of the ecclesiastical parish, 5,or8. W.all Letter BDx, .Aldin Grange, cleared at 5.30 & 8.30 St. Katherine's mission church at Broompark, erected p.m in 1883, at a cost of £350, is a small edifice of red brick, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a Public Elementary Schools. western turret containing one belL Here is a Wesleyan Bearpark (mixed), erected in I87J, & remodelled in chapel, erected in 1882, with 150 sittings, and a Primi- 1913, for 450 children; average attendance, 368; tive Methodist chapel, built in 1884, seating 360 persons. Herbert Chicken, master; Miss J. Leathley, infants' There is also a tSmall iron building at Broompark for mistress the United Free Church. BNompark (mixed & infants), built in 1892, f{)r 323 . At _Bearpark, on the banks of theh Bro_wney,f aDre shome children; average att-endlance, 143 ; William H. remams of a country residence of t e pnors o ur am, Rambling, master consisting of undercrDft and some low straggling walls : Bertoom, prior of Dur.ham (u88-12o9), erected a house Railway Station. here, which the Scots destroyed in 1316, but it was Aldin Grange, Robert Watson Chapman, station master rebuilt by prior Fossor in 1342, and here he died : • Douglas ..lrthur S. agent & viewer of Lawson Marmaduke Wilson, farmer, . Marked t receive their letters thro' Bearpark Coal & Coke Co. Limited, Whitehouse farm Ushaw Moor, Durham. Bearpark Lightfoot Henry, beer ret. Broompk Brown John M.D. Kelvin ho.Bearpark Elcoat Arthur, builder, contractor, Meredith Henry, builder & contrac- Chicken Herbert road contractor &c. Linden road, tor, Victor terrace, .Auton Stile Douglas .Arthur S Bearpark Miller Wm. Thos. frmr. Stotgate frm Palmer Rev. Thomas Francis M ..A. tGardiner Thos. Mowbray, Flass inn tNew Brancepeth Co-operative &; (vicar), The Vicarage, Bearpark Gray Charles, fruiterer, Broompark Industrial Society Limited tGreenwell Elizabeth (Mrs.), butche~ Pattinson Sarah & Ettie (Misses), • COMMERCIAL. tHedlev Edward, grocer shopkeepers Hind John, Dog & Gun P.H . .Auton Shearer John, coke inspector at Bear- !rmorey John, farmer, Brecon hill Stile ' park colliery Bearpark Coal &; Coke Co. Limfted Hodgson Wm.frmr. ·Aldin Grange frm Shepherd George Thomas, farmer, (Arthur S. Douglas, agent & Hold Emma (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Baxter wood viewer), Bearpark Bearpark Colliery Shepherd Robert, farmer, Arbor, Bearpark Industrial Co-operative So- Howard Alfred, cartman, .Auton Field Bearpark ciety Limited, Bearpark Colliery house, Bearpark Smith Brothers, builders Binks William, boot ma. Bearpark Hughes Thomas, cartman Smith William, !'hopkpr. Broompark Blake Isaac, shopkeeper, Bearpark Hunter Geor.ge, farmer, West Broom Stevenson John, beer retlr. Bearpark Bradley Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper, farm & Broom hill Sturdy James Edward, hair dresser. Post office, Broompark Hurst Frank, Love's hotel Auton Stile Brown John M.D.,C.M.Glas. physician Inness Gabriel, joiner, undertal;.er Teasdale Ralph (Mrs.), shopkeeper, & surgeon_, Kelvin house, Bearpark & builder, .Auton Stile, Bearpark Bearpark Clark Patrick, fried fish dealer, Jamfrey Isaac, sexton, Post office, Thompson James William, inspector Broompark Anton Stile for the Wea.rdale & Consett Water Clarke Robert, farmer, :Moorsley Bank .Jnhnson Joseph Wm. grocer,Broompk Co . .Autnn Stile tDent Tallentire, baker Kits on J sph. (Mrs.), shpkpr. Bearpk +Wright George, confectioner Lang Ern est, farmer, Red house 'Young George, farmer, Broom farm :BURDON, see Ryhope. • • :BURNMOOR, or Bourne-Moor, is a parish. formed church: in 1897 a new altar table wa~ provided at s cost Jan. 2, 18.66, consistinQ" of the townships of Burnmoor, of £170. In 188z the church was Pnlarged by the 3rd South Biddick and Lambton and part of Harrato.n, in the Earl of Dnrham bv the addition of a Perpendicular north Honghton-le-Springo division of the county, Chester-le- aisle, at a cost of £r,7?,2. ond further wOTk was carried Street union, Houghton-le-Spring petty sessional division, unt in 1888, at a cost of {,&64. and now afford!'l about 400 Durham county court district, rural deanery of Houghton- •ittings. In the churchyard is a heautiful memorial le-Spring, archdeaconry and diocese of Durham. Burn- cro~s to Beatrice France10, Counte!'l' of Durham; it is of moor is r mile north-east from Fence Houses station on [rish limestonP, 20 feet hi!?h. awl ill !Ill exact reproduc­ the main line of the North Eastern railway, 3 north-west tion in proportion of the famous Irish cro~~< at Monaster­ from Hon~rhton-le-Spring and 3 east from Chester-le- bnice, the Celtic ornamentation bt>ing copied from some Street. The church of St. Barnabas, built at the sole 1 of the finest specimens in Ireland. The register dates charge of Geor!?e Frederick, 2nd Earl of Durham, in the from the year 1868. The living is a rPctory, net yearly year 1868, is an edifice in the Early English style, con· \""alue £4oo, with residence, in the gift of the Earl of sisting of chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, south porch Durham K.G., P.C .. G.C.V.O. and. held since 1:903. by and western turret containing one bell: the chancel is thf> Rev. Sydn~y Montgomery Reynolds M . .A. Qf Keble beautifully decorated, and there are several stained College, Oxford. There is a colliery belon~ng to, and windows. The west window is a memorial to Beatrice worked on a nry extensive .scale by, the Lamb ton and Prances, Countess of Durham, d. Jan. 21, 1871, and was Hetton Collieries Limited; there are alSQ coke oven-s erected by parishioners and others attending this and brick factories. Bowes' House, in this parish, •