[DURHAM.] . 386 POST 01'PtCE COLD HASELDEN, or COLD HESLETON, is a township pool andSunderland railway. There are chapels for WesleyanS in the parish of Dalton-Ie-Dale, 2 miles south-east from and Primitive Methodists; a National sc1ltlol for boys and Seaham Harbour, in the north division of Easington ward, girls, built, and principally supported, by the South Hetton Easington uuion, situated on the high road from Stockton to Colliery Company. There are coke ovens and an extensive col­ Sunderland. The population, in 1851, was 117, and the liery here. The population, in 1851, was 1,387, and the acreage acreage is 1,031. The soil is clayey; the subsoil limestone. is 1,466. The soil is clay; the subsoil limestone. R. L. Richard L. Pemberton, Esq., is lord of the manor and chief PembertQn and E. Shepperdson, Esqrs., are the chief land­ landowner. The chief crops are wheat, barley, and oats. owners. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, and turnips. 'l'here is pasture land here. There are charities of£35 yearly There is much pasture land here. In 1831 the population value. was only 98, but by the opening of the colliery thepopulation :M:URTON or l\IORTON, and MURTON COLLIERY, are in was rapidly increased. the parish of Dalton-Ie-Dale, with a station on the Hartle- 'DaltoD-le-'Dale. Froud William, farmer Gibson William, blacksmith Chester Rev. Thomas Keith [curate] Heads Christopher, farmer, West house Hunter Geo. schoolmstr.Murton colliery Brown Rev. Jas. Humphrey, Vicarage Hutchillson John, farmer, Low house Hunter Ralph, shoemkr.1Vlurton colliery Webb Mr. John Potts Thomas Goodchild, Pemberton's Jobson Robert, Murton Colliery 'inn, COMMERCIAL. Arms, &joiner 1\/[urton colliery Ford William, blacksmith Stephenson Geo. f~1l'mer, Haseldon moor Johnson John, farmer, 'West farIll lIarrison Joseph, blacksmith Willis Joseph, farmer, West farm J ohnson Robert, farmer, Middle farm Henderson John, farmer, Old Dalton Letters by foot post from Seaham Lawson John, grocer & draper, MUl"ton Hutchinson Patten, Times inn Harbour, which is the nearest money coijiery Hutchinson Patten, farmer, Old Dalton order office Minns John, joiner & wheelwright J ameson Thomas, joiner & wheelwright Mitchell Andrew, tailor, Murton colliery Ramshaw WiIliam, farmer Murton. Mowbray William, farmer Robinson Thomas, farmer, Dalton moor Bland Mr. Daniel, ]\'1001' cottage Murton Colliery (South Hetton) Co Thubron William, farmer, South farm COMMERCIAL. Noble George, boot & shoe maker, Tidyman Chas. farm bailiff, Heatherby Cummins John, Traveller's Rest, & Murton colliery 'Vatt Andrew, farmer, Dalton moor grocer, Murton colliery PattisonvYm.land agent, Murton house Letters from Seaham Harbour, which Cummins Megison, Victoria, Murton Smithson Ann (Mrs.), ll1urton inn is the nearest money order office colliery Smithson Wm. grocer, MurtoIl colliery Cold Haselden. Errington 1'hos. farmer, Murton moor Letters by foot post from Seaham COMMERCIAL. Gibbons Stephen, farmer, Murton moor Harbour, which is the nearest money llrison William, farmer Gibson John, butcher order office

.~ DARLINGTON.

DARLINGTON is a neat, well-built market town, town­ Holy Trinity church is a neat structure, in the Early ship, parish, head of a ward, union and deanery, polling English style of architecture. An ecclesiastical district, to place, and railway station, 238 miles north-north-west from which this church is attached, was formed by an Order in London, 18 south from Durham, 16 east-south-east from Council, dated April3rd, 1843, and consists of Archdeacon Bal'l1ard Castle, 11 west-south-west from Stockton-on-Tees, Newton, , and part of Dal'lington. The church 3D south from Newcastle, 16 north from Northallerton consists ofa nave, aisles, and a square tower. It will accom­ (Yorkshire), 12 north-west from Richmond, and 45 by rail modate 1,000 persons, and contains 600 free sittings. A new from York city, in the south-east division of the ward to organ was erected in 1843, and a clock was placed in the which it gives name, southern division of the county, tower in 1850. The living is a curacy, worth £180 per deanery ofDarlington, and archdeaconry and diocese ofDur­ annum, in the patronage of the Archdeacon of Durham; ham. The parish is divided into four townships-viz., DAR­ the Rev. Thomas W. Minton is the incumbent, and the LINGTON, , BLACKWELL, and Rev. M. Duggan, B.A., is the curate. COCKERTON. 'l'he population of the parish, in 1851, was St. J olm's church, situated on the eastern bank of the 12,453, and the acreage 7,856 acres. The population of the Skerne, is a handsome structure, in the later period of the township is 11,582, and {)f'the town 11,228. . Early English style of' architecture. The foundation~stone The town is seated on the great north road, and on the was laid by George Hudson, Esq., M.P., at that time lord side of a hill that slopes to the , over which mayor of' York, on the 10th September, 1847, and it was there is a bridge. The Stockton arid Darlington and North consecrated by the Bishop of Durham on the 16th July, Eastern railways, which pass close to the town, have stations 1853. An ecclesiastical district was formed under Sir Robert here, and afford increased facility for its trade. Peel's Act, and attached to this church, by an Order in Coun­ The township is subdivided into four constabularies-viz., cil, dated July 6th, 1845. The district includes that part of Darlington borough, Bondgate, Priestgate, or Prebend the township ofDarlington,and also thatpart ofthetownship Row, and Oxenhall, or Oxen-le-Field. The government is of Blackwell, in the same parish, situated on the eastern side vested in a chief' bailift~ appointed by the Bishop ofDurham, of the river Skerne. The church was erected from designs who holds courts for the manor of Bondgate, and also for furnished by John Middleton, Esq., and consists of a nave, the borough twice a year; and the county magistrates sit in chancel, and a lofty tower containing 5 bells, and which is petty session, at their rooms in Northumberland-place, every intended to be surmounted by a spire 160 feet high. The :Monday. From Darlington the return of members is made font is a gift from Archdeacon Thorp. The chancel is laid for the. southern division of the county, and it is included with tesselated pavement of a very rich pattern. This in the second circuit of county court towns, under the church possesses some fine stained glass windows, filled with Act for the recovery of debts not exceeding £50. The Poor­ representations of the Evangelists, the Apostles, Saints law guardians meet every alternate Mondavat the Board- Peter and Paul, monograms, &c. The living is a curacy, room, Central-buildings. • worth £170 per annum, in the patronage of the Queen and The town is lighted with g'as, and well supplied with the Bishop of Durham alternately; the Rev. William Henry water. G. Stephens, M.A., is the incumbent. The parish church of St. Cuthbert (formerly collegiate), St. Augustin's (Catholic) church, situated in Paradise­ is a noble cruciform Gothic structure, with nave, aisles, lane, is in the Gothic style, and was erected in 1827, from chancel, transept, porch, and clock. The towel' rises fi'om designs by Ignatius Bonomi, Esq.; the interior has a • the centre, and is surmounted by a tall light spire. It con­ panelled oak ceiling, and is in harmony with the general tains six musical bells, on which the clock chimes a tune style of the building. The resident clergymen are the Right every fourth hour. The west door is highly finished with Rev. William Hogarth, D.D., bishop, and the Rev. Dr. arching's and pilasters, cylindrical and octagonal inter­ Robert Cornthwaite, chaplain. changeably. In the interior is a fine-toned organ; and there The Baptist chapel, Upper Archer-street, is a substantial are several monuments, amongst which tllOse of the Allan brick building, erected by subscription in 1847 j it has ac­ family are conspicuous. The church will accommodate about common.ation for about 450 persons, and contains an excellent 1,200 persons. The parish register commences fi'om 15~O. organ. 'l'he living is a perpetual curacy, not certified nor in charge. Bethel chapel, situated in Union-street, was enlarged in The gross income, in 1835, was stated to be £284 per 182.3, and will seat about 360 persons. annum, in the patronage of the Duke of Cleveland; Rev. The Friends' Meeting house, in Skinner gate, is a hand­ Alexander J ames Howell, M.A., is the incumbent. some and convenient structure, and will accommodate nearly

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