DIRECTORY. J . NORTHUMBERLAND. CRAMLINGTUN. 113 Woodburn, and the township of Chesterhope. East [ boundary of the Cragg which lead to the belief that the Woodburn is I mile east. iron ore in that district had been worked by the Romans. 1 • • • i A field on the property has always gone by the name of RIDSDALE JS a hamlet m the township of Chesterhope, I "Ironstone-field." It is supposed that the name of the 2 miles south-south-east of West Woodburn. There is a estate is derived from an abrupt and lofty rock or crag United Methodist chapel, formerly a school, and seating of freest0ne, overhanging the river Rede, which skirts about 190 persons. Lynn Head Waterfalls is a place of the boundary on the north side. great resort for its picturesque scenery. Sex:ton, Mathew Scott.

RISI~GHAM, about the centre of the parish, was thA Post, M. 0. & T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office, site of the RCorsenside, I mile from the village of West W oodburn & 7.10 p.m and 4 from the market town of Bellingham, has been Corsenside Council School, West Woodburn (mixed); for many centuries the property of the Reed family: the the .site was presented in 1818 by the Rev. Anthony Reeds of the Cragg were a powerful clan in Rcdesdale Hedley, vicar of Kirkwhelpington, & the building, with in the time of King Henry VIII. aml are descendants master's residence, erected by voluntary subscription; of the elder branch of Heeds of Troughend: a progenitor i L was rrpain~d & enlarged in 1876 at a cost of £2oo, of the Reeds of Cragg, called Percival (or Parsy), keeper & taken over by the board & rebuilt in 1883, at a cost of the marches, was treacherously murdered by the of £6oo; it will hold r62 children; average attend­ betrayal of a neighbour called Hall, which excited such ance, 124; Frederick .Alvey, master; R. Riddle, Con­ general abhorrence in R.Bde sdale, that be and all his heath, Bellingham, clerk to the managers family were obliged to fly the country. The old family W oodburn Rail way Station, Richd. N otman, station mast mansion, long in a state of dilapidation, has been entirely Carrier to Otterburn & Elsdon.-Ernest Pigg, daily demolishPd. The present farmhouse and offices are \ Carrier to Newcastle .-Thomas Simpson, wed. return­ modern structures. There are indications on the western ing fri

CORSE:NSIDE. 'Robson Edward, farmer, Yellow ho 1 LISLESBURN. (Letters through West Woodburn.) Simpson Octavius Jas.frmr.C'oldTo»n (Letters through West Woodburn.)

, • • 1 Simpson Thomas, shopkt•eper D D ·d 0 (U · d l hornpson_ Thomas, E_dward R1ddle & I Sister son John, Bay Horse p .H 1 empster. Rev. a vi scar mte H nry, tanners, Bng : Thompson Henry Septimus farmer & . .Methodist) I 1 d T h d ' Frost Edward, Park cottage an owner, own ea Ill" tl R Alf d Cl BA WEST WOODBURN. IT R b t ('·' ) t t mgwor 1 ev. re arence . . owers o er _vas. , apar men s, (vicar) Vicarage Dodds Miss, Learn cottage Oak Tree house ' Hall David, Lowlands Walton Joseph, farmer, Peel cottage i COMMERCIAL. COMM ~;RCIAI. . Woodburn Quarry Co. (Alexander Darna Quarry Co. (John Bell, mgr) .\llan Elizabeth (Miss), dress maker Beattie, manager) Dodd .T a ne (MrM.) & .Abraham, All an John, shopkeeper farmers, Town head Alvey Frederick, head master ,Corsen- CHES'l'ERHOPE. Hall Michael, farmer, Barewalls side Council school 1 (Postal address, West W oodburn.) Hedley George, mason Beal George Ricbardson, Fox & I Meikle Gilbert, farmer, Wishaw Hounds hotel Reed Chas. Archibald Percival,Cragg Shanks John, farmer & landowner, Brudie John, farmer, Redeside COMMERCIAL. Whitstone house Charlton Ralph, butcher Dagg John, farmer, Broadgate Sin ton John, farmer, Blakelow Graham :\Hth w. grcr. Woodburn statn. Ferguson An drew, assistant overseer, Telfer William & Sons, farmers, Low Green Edward, farmer, Ingram cot · Ridsdale park Hedley James, carpenter, Woodhouse · Graham Matthew, grocer, Sarelaw Thompson Christr.farmer,High Shaw Hutton Christopher, frmr.High Learn cottage, Ridsdale Walton Bros. farmers, W oodbum hill Institute & ReadingRoom(Jn.Bell,sec) Hall James, farmer, Four laws Lloyds Bank Limited (sub-branch) Milburn William, insurance agent EAST WOODBURN. (Edward Dixon, manager); open; Neshit John, butcher, Ridsdale . fridays . to Nesbit Margaret (Mrs.), Armstrong (Letters should have West Woodburn, 2 30 4 Lowes Thomas, cartman, Yellow ho Arms P.H. Ridsdale Northumberland, added.) ~orth Eastern Banking Co. Limited Patterson Thomas, farmer, Park head COMMERCIAL. (sub-branch) (William Smith, man- Reed Charles Archibald Percival, Bell John Gibson, farmer, Townfoot

ager), open thursdays 1.30 to 3.30; 1 farmer & landowner, Cragg Charlton Ralph, butcher, Townfoot draw on Glyn, Mills, Currie & Co. Robson William, farmer, High & Low Colville William, farmer London E C Chesterhope :'.fcGlasson James, farmer,Blyth house 1 Pigg Ernest, tailor & drapr.Post office '! Slassor & Co. shopkeepers, Ridsdale Nesbit William, farmer Rirldle Edward, farmer, Low Learn Thornton Edward, farmer, Broombill Wright Joseph, grocer

COWPEN, see Blyth. COXLODGE, see Gosforth.

CRAMLINGTON, with the hamlets of East, South memorial to A. Hornsby esq. and a clock, erected at a and West Cramlington and Shankhouse, forms a parish cost of £ T ,ooo, in r B71, as a memorial to Edward in the Wansbeck division of the county, petty sessional Potter esq. by the workmen of Cramlington colliery: division of Castle West, union of Tynemouth, county there are several memorial windows, erected by the court district of North Shields, and in the rural deanerv • Shawe-Storey family in r867, and an elaborate carved of Bedlington, archdeaconry of Northumberland and oak rood screen was presented in 1896 by Mrs. W. A. diocese of Newcastle. Cramlington has a station on the Potter, in memory of her husband: the church affords Newcastle and Morpeth section of the North Eastern 450 sittings. The register dates from the year 166o. rail way, and is 10 miles north-east from Newcastle. Thr living is a vicarage, net yearly value £288, with The "Local GovPrnment Act, r858," was adopted 26 residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Newcastle, and September, r865, but under the provisions of the Act held sinc3 rgro by the Rev. Thomas Peter Allan, of St. oi 1894 (56 an.d 57 Vict. c. 73), the parish is r.ow .iidan's. There is a Church of England mission church governed by an Urban District Council at Shankhouse, where divine service is conducted every By Local Government Board Order No. 56,45o, which Sunday evening by the clergy of St. Nicbolas. There came into operatiou 1~t .April, 1912, East and West are WeslAyan, United Methodist and Primitive Methodist Hartford were added to Cramlington L'rban District, chapels at East and West Cramlington, and Wesleyan and the district divided into four wards. and United Methodist chapels at Shankhoose. The old The church or St. Nicholas, erected in 1865-8, is a. cemetery was taken" over by the Urban District Council. bnildin~ of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of A new burial ground was formed in 1909, at a cost of chancel, clerestoried nave of four bays, aisles and a £r,ooo. The charities consist of the interest of £124. western tower containing 6 bells, re-hung in n1o2 as a left by Robert Storey in 1822. In East and West Crsun- NORTHUMB. 8