23.2 . DURHAM. [KELLY'S branch of the North Eastern railway, 3 miles north-by-west Sexton, Nicholas Finley. from Houghton-le-Spring, 6 west from , 9 south- PosT OFFICE, Penshaw. Letters through , east from and 9 north-east from Durham, in the · arrive at 8 a.m. & 7 p.m.; dispatched I,30 & 7.20 p.m.; Houghton-le-Spring division of the county, north division of none on sundays · Easington ward, Houghton-le-Springpetty sessional division PosT, :M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, and union, Durham county court district, rural deanery of .-Cuthbert Stewart, receiver. Letters from Houghton-le-Spring and archdeaconry and diocese of Dur-; Fence Houses, arrive at 8 a.m. & 7 p.m.; dispatched at ham. The church of All Saints is a plain building of stone, I · 1.45 & 8 p.m · · consisting of chancel, nave and a turret containing one bell: ScHOOLS:- there are 450 sittings. The register dates from the year . A School Board of five members was formed February to, I]54· The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge I 1876, for the united district of Penshaw & Offerton ;"W • .l,323, net yearly value £38o, including 68 acres of glebe, Herber, 40 Sadler street, Durham, clerk to the board with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Manchester, and Board (infants), Shiney Row, for ISO children; average held since 1884 by the Rev. James Moore B.A. of Magdalene attendance, 93; Miss Sarah Greenhow, mistress College, Cambridge. There is a Wesleyan chapel in the Board, Penshaw, built in 1878, for 450 children; averRg-e village. In this township are several collieries, stone attendance, 122 boys, 112 girls, 38 infants; James Todd, quarries and an iron foundry. On Penshaw Hill, about half master; Miss Jane Galloway, mistress ; Miss Mary J ... a mile from the village, is a monument of freestone, erected Lumsden, infants' mistress by subscription, in I844, to John, first Earl of Durham: the Board (mixed), Cox Green, built in 1878, for I20 children.;. design is that of a Grecian temple, and from its elevated and average attendance, 8o; Thomas Potts, master conspicuous situation it can be see~ from many parts of the RAILWAY STATIONS:- cou~try. Penshaw Hou;re, the restdence of F. Stobart esq. Penshaw, Thomas Melville, station master J.P. IS an excellent mansiOn of freestone. The Earl of Dur· Cox Green George Dodds station master ham is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is ' ' chiefly limestone, with clay intermixed ; subsoil, light. The CARRIERS T~ .=- . chief crops are wheat, oats and turnips. The area of the NEWCASTLE-James ~obson, toes. & thnrs. returnmg same township is 1,085 acres; rateable value, [12,072; the popu- days . . lation in z88l was 2,6os; the area of the ecclesiastical SUNDERLAND-Thomas D1xon, sat. returmng same day parish is I 1 838 acres; the population in 1881 was2,892. O:fferton is a small township in the parish of ,Penshaw,. • . . . . . and in Sunderland county court district, 1! miles north-east Sh1n~y Row ts a hamlet and VIllage m this township, from Penshaw station and 4 west from Sunderland, and is half a~~~~ ~onth. Th~re are Wesleyan, Wesleyan Reform situated on an eminence upon a rock of limestone. TI;J.e Earl and .Prtmttive Methodist chapels and a good news and of Durham is the principal landowner and lord of the manor. readmg-room. ·The soil is clayey and loamy; the subsoil clay, gravel and Cox Green is a small hamlet on the south bank of the limestone~ The crops are wheat, barley, oats, turnips and Wear, partly in this township and partly in West Herring- potatoes. The area is 847 acres; rateable value. £s,g6o; ton, about I mile north, and has a station on the Bishop the population in I88I was 137. Auckland and Penshaw branch of the North Eastern rail- Letters through Sunderland, arrive at 9.30 a.m. Hylton is way. In this hamlet are quarries, the stone from which is the nearest money order & telegraph office of a superior quality for resisting the action of fire. WALL LETTER Box cleared at I & 7.10 p.m Penshaw. Oats George, joiner COliiMERCIAL. Clay Mrs Penshaw Foundry Co. iron founders, Applegarth Peter, butcher Crookes St. John Penshaw foundry · Banks Hedworth, butcher Dingwall Jas. Lochhead, Penshaw stables Potts Thomas Stothard, farmer Barker James, boot & shoe maker Dyson Rev. Charles B.A. [curate] Scott William, farmer Birtley Thomas, Oddfellows' Arms inn Gilchrist Thomas Sisterson Dorothy(Mrs. ),GreyHorse inn Clark Robert, fruiterer & potato merc- Hutchinson Peter, Reays cottages Skelton Thomas, Ship inn Clark Robert, news agent . Johnstone George W Smart Margaret (Mrs.), Prospect inn Crooks Minnie (Miss), private school Leighton Mrs. The Villa Stobart Frank, assistant agent to the Curry Thomas, general dealer . Matthews Fras. John, Penshaw Low ho Earl of Durham, Penshaw house DavisonAdam,beer ret. bum Moore Rev. James B.A. [rector] Thompson John, blacksmith Dixon Elizabeth (Mrs.). Swan inn Nicholson John Andrew UnderwoodCharlotte (Mrs. ),shopkeeper 1 Elliot Thomas, farmer, Her~ington burn Stobart Frank J.P. Penshaw house Wray Margaret (Mrs.), Bird-in.Bush I<'uge Brothers, groeers COMMERCIAL. inn, Pensbaw staith Gray Edward, boot & shoe ma.. Mill pit Aittis Thomas, shoe maker Offi to Hall Hugh Sidney, Wheat Sheaf inn Bird Thomas, grocer & draper, & post er n. Hobson John, draper office McLaren Mrs. Offerton hall Hunter George,farmer,Herrington burn Blenckley John, Bird-in-Hand inn Cox Green. Letch Arthur, seedsman, Mill pit Curren William, shopkeeper BradleyJames, faruner Malcolm Francis,Shoulder ofMutton ina Dingwall James Lochhead L.R.C.P.Edin., Proud Joseph, confectioner Dickinson J ames, butcher Robson Joseph, farmer L.F.P. & s.G. surg. Penshaw stables Hume George, Odd Fellows' Arms P.H F'orsterWilliam, blacking manufacturer, Snowball George, fruiterer Scott & Horn, quarry owners Stewart Cuthbert,gro. drapr.&post office Penshaw staith Slowther Lancelot, Royal William inn Gilchrist Thomas, mining engineer Tindale John, butcher Tate John, grocer Todd Edward, dentist, Dentoriom Humphrey Hannah (Mrs.), farmer Todd John, butcher Hurst & Sons, quarry owners ' . White Alexander, joiner Jameson Mrs. :Mary, farmer ShineyRow. White Francis, Londonderry Arms P.B Johnstone Geo.W. L.R.C.P.Edin.surgeon Todd Edward, Dentorium Winn John, Travellers' Rest inn, Mill piU Lambert James, farmer Winter Thomas S WylamRobert Robson,butcher,Mill pit PITTINGTON is a township and parish pleasantly the font, of white marble, was formerly in Durham cathe· situated in a vale of the , with a station on the dral; there are goo sittings. The register dates from the Sunderland and Shincliffe branch of the North Eastern rail­ year I574• and there are churchwardens'' accounts from way, 4 miles north-east from Durham, in the Mid division 1584 to J68g. The living is a discharged vicarage, average­ of the county, south-west divt.Sion of the ward of Easington, tithe rent-charge £482, net yearly valve [4oo, including 70 petty sessional division, union and county court district of acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Durham, rural deanery of Easington, and archdeaconry and Chapter of Durham, and held since 1875 by the Rev. James diocese of Durham. The church of St. Lawrence, situated Barmby B. D. of Magdalen College, Oxford. Here is ·a W es­ at Hallgarth, is an ancient building of stone, the tower and leyan chapel, erected in 1830, with 200 sittings, and a north side of the nave of which are Norman and the remain­ Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1842, seating I90 per­ der Early English, dating from about 126o, except a plain sons. There is a literary institute and reading-room, well Norman door in the porch; it consists of chancel, nave of supplied with the local papers, magazines &c. and containing six bays, aisles, south porch, and a low embattled western a small library. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords tower with pinnacles containing 3 bells : the tower staircase of the manor and the. principal landowners. The soil is projects in an octagonal forun from the centre of the wall on light and loamy, and in some parts clay ; subsoil, sand­ the north side : on the north side of the nave was formerly stone, part clay and limestone. The chief crops are w.bea.t, a chapel, the arcade of which, consisting of two arches, is barley, oats, turnips and some land in pasture. The ar~a @i now built into the wall ; the north arcade of the nave has the township is 2,494 acres, chiefly consisting of valuable four arches highly enriched with zigzag work, and carried on collieries belonging to the Marquess of Londonderry and tne piers alternately round and shafted, with cushioned and Earl of Durham. Rateable value, £15,774; the populatiou moulded caps ; the cylindrical piers, encircled by boldly pro­ in 1881 was 2,231. jecting spiral bands, produce an unusual and striking effect : LITTLETOWN is a colliery village x mile east, consisting of