216 KIMBLESWORTH. DURHAM. (KELLY's XIMBLESWORTH is a parish and colliery Yillage, Iwith ston1 dressings, seating 230 persons. A colliery is situated near the main road from Durham to Newcastle, 3 worked here by Messrs. Elliott and Hunter. The Earl of miles north-by-north-west of Durham and 3 miles east from Durham is lord of the manor and the principal landowner. W1tton Gilbert station on the Consett branch. of the North The soil is sand and clay; subsoil, gravel and clay. The Eastern railway, and consists of one farm and numerous cot- chief crops are wheat., barley, oats and turnips. The area is tages occupied by miners employed at the Kimblesworth 626 acres; rateable value, £3,871; the population in 188I was colliery, in the Mid division of the county, West division of 1,132. · Chester ward, Durham union, county court district and Letters through Chester-le-Street, arrive at 10 a. m. ; dis- petty sessional division: this was anciently a separate rec- patched at 4 p.m. Durham is the nearest money order tory, but the church has long since gone to decay, and the & telegraph office benefice is united to Witton Gilbert : divine service is held Colliery School (mixed), erected in I878 & enlarged in 1884, in the Colliery school on Sunday afternoon at 3· Here is a for 450 children; average attendance, 400; John Moore, Wesleyan chapel, erected in I887, a. building of red brick master Hardy George, foreoverman Liddel1 George, farmer COMMERCIAL. Heavis1de John, bank inspector Liddell Joseph, backoverman Atkinson Jn.Thos.cashier at the colliery Kenny ,John, back overman Morrow James, backoverman Brown John, engineer at the colliery Kimblesworth Coal Co. (Eiliott & Hun- Prest John Joseph, under viewer Clarke John, master wasteman ter, proprietors; William Cuthbert Short Ed ward, foreoverman Dodds Matthew, master wasteman Blackett, manager) XIRX MERRINGTON, see MERRINGTON. · . LAMESLEY is a village and parochial chapelry1 con- worth," and in 1368 she is styled "countess of Ravens­ taining the townships of LAMESLEY, KIBBLESWORTH, HED- helm :" about the year 1370 the estate belonged to a branch LEY and RAVENSWORTH, and situated on the river Team, , of the Lumley family, with whom it continued till their with a. station on the Team Valley branch of the North l heiress married Sir Henry Boynton, whose only daughter Eastern railway, 5 miles north from Cbester-le-Street, 4 I became the wife of Sir Henry Gascoyn, of whose descendant, south from and 14 north from Durham, in the I Sir William Gascoyn, the manors of Ravenswo,rth, Lames­ Chester-le-Street division of the county, Mid division of , ley and Eighton were purchased in 16o7 by Thomas Liddell Chester ward, civil parish, petty sessional division and union 'esq. whose son Thomas was created a baronet on the 2nd of of Chester-le-Street, county court district of Gateshead, November, 1642, after having defended the town of New­ rural deanery of Chester, archdeaconry and diocese of Dur- castle against the Scots, and paid the sum of £4,ooo to thP. ham. The church of St. Andrew is an edifice of stone, ;in sequestrators for his estates: the original purchase deeds of the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of four that date (16o7), still preserved, show that the name was bays, aisles and an embattled western tower with turret then written "Ravenshelme :" it is recorded that this family containing one bell; the church was rebuilt in 1758, the tower were anciently lords of Liddell castle and the barony of in 1821 and subsequently the chancel was renewed at the Buft ~ they have been the proprietors of considerable coal cost of Thomas Henry, first Lord Ravensworth: the .organ works from the time of their settling in this county: Sir was presented by the second Lord Ravenswortb, as a memo- Thomas , the seventh baronet, was raised to rial of his father1 who died 7th March, 1855: there are'five the peerage in 1821 by the t.itle of Baron Ravensworth, stained windows: the church received considerable altern- having previously taken down part of the old castle (A.D. tions and additions in 188~ at a total cost of £1,400, and 18o8) and commenced the erection of the present beautiful has 358 sittings. The register dates frorn the year 1603. structure : two of the ancient towers are yet standing: the The living was declared a vicarage Nov. 20, 1866, net yearly excellent white freestone of which the castle is constructed value £23~Z, with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Raven&- was obtained from the He worth quarries: the long extended worth, and held since 1868 by the Rev. Robert. William front, with its numerous but irregular towers, faces towards Snape M. A. of St. .John's College, Cambridge, and surrogate. the south-south-east: the style of architecture is various­ There are charities of about £30 yearly value, left by Major- the windows Elizabethan, and its has three fronts,. with General Sir Leonard Greenwell, who was a native of Lames- square and octagonal embattled towers, one of which has a ley ; and some smaller charities, all of which are distributed reservoir on its summit, capable of holding 3,000 gallons by the incumbent and churchwardens at Christmas in food of water: the principal entrance, on the north side, ewer and clothing to the poor. There is an almshouse, built in wiiich is a statue of Her Majesty , opens into a 1835 by Maria Susanna, Lady Ravensworth, for eight agec\ noble hall xoo feet long, 36 feet wide and so feet high, also people, who are generally chosen from the servants of the used as a billiard room, beyond which is a gallery contain­ family. The Earl of Ravensworth, who is lord of the ing some valuable paintings by old masters ; from the manor, Thomas Duncombe-Eden esq. J.P. of Beamish Park, centre of this hall is the entrance to the gallery and the Tanfield, the Earl of Strathmore and John Ralph Carr-Ellison suite of rooms in the south front, the dining room so feet esq. J.P. of Hedgeley, Alnwick, are the principallandowners. long ;, also the saloon, library, museum and conservatory~ The soil and subsoil are clayey and heavy ; here is alSQ in the library is a painting of George IV. by Sir Thomas some rich meadow and pasture land. The chief crops are Lawrence : the grounds are tastefully laid out, and contain wheat, barley, 0ats and turnips. The area of the chapelry fish ponds, also some noble specimens of the cedars of

is 6,583 acres; rateable value9 £26,572; the population in Lebanon, gigantic rhododendrons, and a venerable oak 20 x88I was 21459· feet m girth. Near to Ravensworth Castle is a stone Hedley is a township 21 miles south-west column, concerning whicli 'there is a tradition that it was 'bbl h · ~ . • one of the crosses erected to hold markets at during the ~~ es:ort ts~ h~m 1et, I mt1 e so~t~ ~rom Lamesl~y great plague at Newcastle in 1645; and when the produce statwo. T er~ ~re . es eyan and Prnmt1ve Methodtst of the country was not allowed to be exposed for sale at a ·chapels. Here IS •' colhery. less distance than 3 miles from that town. Ravensworth township is I mile north. Ravensworth Lamesley Village. Letters are received by foot post via Gates- Castle, the seat of the Earl of Ravensworth, stands in its }>ark head at 10 a. m. & WALL LETTER Box cleared at 3.3op.m. at a distance of 3 miles south-south-west from Neweas~e The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Low Fell and commands a fine view of the valley of Lamesley. In the PosT OFFICE, Kibblesworth.-John Humble Forster, re- oldest records concerning Ravensworth, the village is written ceiver. Letters are received by foot post Yia Gateshead at "Ra:lienswarth," and the castle "Raffenshelm," the first 9· 10 a.m. & are dispatched at 3.10 p.m. Birtley is the signifying the estate and the second the fortress of '' Raffen," nearest money order & telegraph office which, being the cognizance of the Danish standard, ScHOOLS :- shows that they were anciently possessed by the Danes, who Lamesley National (mixed), erected in 1862, for 100 boys probably were the founders of the castle, as we do not find in & 100 girls; average attendance, So boys & 6o girls; the episcopal archives any license to embattle and crenellate Thomas Clarke, master ; Miss E. J. Parkin, mistress the house of Ravensworth, though of every other castle in the Messrs. John Bowes & Partners Limited, Kibblesworth county, except Brancepeth and Bamard castles, there is that (mixed), for 150 children; average attendance, 120; evidence. Bishop Flambard granted this and other manors William Crosthwaite, master to his nephew Richard, to be held by homage and knight's Railway Station, William Patterson, station master service : in 1357 mention occurs of "the lady of Ravens- CARRIER TO GATESHEAD, Thomas Swinburne, every thurs Lamesley. Ayre Robert, farmer, Dunkirk NorthEasternRa~lway Station (William Kirsopp John Allerdean cottage Bell John, sexton Patterson, stat10n master) . Snape Rev. R~bt. ·wm. M.A. Vicarage BolamWm.&Isa.ac,frmrs.LadyPk.farm Patterson f1~t~bert, bla.cksm1th Robson David w. Eighton lodge F";lrnessMary(M:s. ),farmr.CloseHo.frm Patt~rson Wllham, statwn master White F't1 · rn s l\'l'll1 gr e K1rkup Geo. asststant overseer, Urpeth Perkms Charles & Partners, c<.ml owners ZJa e ' ! :e n Riding [Letters through Chester-le- & brick manufacturers, Allerdean COMMERCIAL. Street] colliery (David W. Robson, viewer) Anderson Joseph, farmer, South farm Munro Hugh, Ravensworth Arms P.H Pyburn Joseph, farmer, High Eighton Armstrong Jsph. farmer,Moor Mill farm MunroHugh,jun.farmer,LongAcre farm RobsonElizh.(Mrs.),fanner,North farm