,lRIWTORY .J DURHAM. • 149 • • "Weaver John, apartments, I7 Old Elvet Wilson Thomas, grocer, 31: New Elvet Webster John, steward H.M. prison, Old Elvet Wilson Thomas, hair dresser, 71: North road Weightman Robert, Genenl Gordon P.H. 63 Claypath Wilson William, hair dresser, 73 Gilesgate Welch Thomas, printer & publisher of the " Durham Wilson William, Hare & Hounds hotel, 54 New Elvet Chronicle," 67 Saddler street Wilson William Reay, accountant & estate agent, secre- W esleyan & General Assurance Society (Thomas V. tary Durham County Hospital & City of Durham Milner, district supt. ), 56a, North road education committee, 68! Saddler street & 4 Parkside. West Francis, butcher, 61 Orossgate T N I46 Wetherell Henry, hair dresser, 43 Saddler street Wilsons, Ornsby & Cadle, solicitors, 5 North Bailey Whiteley William, insurance sec. Durham Miners' Asso- (T N 25) ; & at Stockton-on-Tees ciation, 8 Brierville Winter M. (Miss), confectioner, 36 Gilesgate Whitfield William George, confectioner, 85 North road Wise John George, shopkeeper, 19 C.-ossgate & 75 New Elvet Wise Mary Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Framwellgate Wilby Harry, Lambton ArllllS P.H. 101 Framwellgate Women's Hostel (University of Durham) (Miss Phyllis Wilkinson Henry, hair dresser, 128 Milburngate Wragge-, principal), Abbey house, Palace green Wilkinson Stephen, architect, 8 Saddler street Wood & Watson, mineral water manfrs. 132 Gilesgate Wilkinson T. M. (Mrs.), registry office for servants, 5 Wood .Joaeph Watson A.A.L auctioneer, valuer, Claypath house & estate agent, Central sale rooms, Elvet bridge. Wilkinson William, photographer, 57 Saddler street TN 214 Williams Lily (Mrs.), confectioner, 41 Claypath Wood Wm. Henry F.R.I.B.A. architect, 47 North Bailey Williamson Frederick, butcher, 34 Cros1gate Woodcock Thomas, baker, 10 Hallgarth street Willis Charles, insurance agent, 8 Waddington street Worthy Annie (Miss), draper, 91 Claypath Willson Walt. Ltd. grocers & provision dlrs.7 Saddler st W ortley Mary Elizabeth (Miss), beer retailer, 73 Claypath Wilson E. (Miss), milliner, I2 Silver street Wragg Edward, tea dealer, Waddington street Wilson Geo. Buchanan, athletic outfitter,21 Elvet bridge Wright Charles & Henry, coopers, 23 Silver street Wilson John M.P. general secretary Durham Miners' Wright Samuel M. Station hotel, 45 North road As.<~ociation, 14 North road Wright Susannah (Mrs.), tobacconist, 63 Gilesgate Wilson John George 1\LA. (firm, Wilsons, Ornsby Ye Dunelm Cafe (G. Greenwell & Sons, proprietors), & Cadle ), solicitor, perpetual commissioner & commis­ 32 Silver street sioner for oaths, under-sheriff of the county, legal Young Men's Christian Association (Roy Spencer, hon. secretary to Bishop of Durham, clerk to the Lieu­ sec.), 85 Claypath .tenaney, chapter clerk & solicitor to Dean & Chapter, Young Isabella (Miss), shopkeeper, 21 Hallgarth street joint clerk to county magistrates & to the Willington Young John Griffith, solicitor, Bank chambers, 12 & 13 Urban District Council, 5 North Bailey. TN 25 Market place "Wilson Jonathan, chimney sweeper, 7 South street 'EAGLESCLIFFE, or , is a village, town- added in the same year: the ancient font, cylindrical i!hip and parish, separated from (in Yorkshire) by in form, on a short shaft, is in good preservation: the the , and is 4 miles south-west from Stockton· church plate includes a completely new set of solid -on-Tees, IO south-east from Darlington, 23 south from silver, provided in 1889 from a •bequest of £Ioo each, 'Durham, and 232! (by rail) from London, in the South by the late Robert Henry Allan esq. of Blackwell Hall, !Eastern division of the county, south-west division of to this and nine other churches: the set comprises a Stockton ward, union and county court district, petty flagon, two chalices, two patens and an alms plate, -t~essional division of Stockton, rural deanery of Stock- all elegantly embossed and engraved with the arms and ton, archdeaconry of Auckland and diocese of Durham. quarterings of the Allan family: the church affords 2ao "The old village is on the steep and lofty northern bank ~ittings. The register dates from the year 1539. The .of the Tees, and overlooks the curve in that river living is a rectory, net yearly value {,66o, including :zoo "Which nearly surrounds the peninsula upon which is acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Sir Hugh liihe town of Yarm, with which this village is connected by Bell bart. of Rounton Grange, Northallerton, and held .a stone bridge, erected about the year qoo by a former since rgo4 by the Rev. Arthur Trehane Dingle M.A. of .Bishop of Durham : it consisted originally of five pointed Christ Church, Oxford. The W esleyan Methodist chapel, arches, but there is a tradition that the north arch was in Yarm road, was erected in 1893. The Jubilee Assembly cut and formed into a drawbridge during the civil VJars, Rooms, erected in 1897, is now a Workmen's Club. The when Eaglescliffe with Stockton was garrisoned by the charities include Hall's of £6 a year distributed to five Royalists : subsequently this arch was rebuilt and is now 1 widows, and Ann French's of £3 a year to the poor­ -semicircular. The North Eastern railway enters the under trustees. The rector, who is joint lord of the .county of Durham at Eaglescliffe by the Yarm viaduct, manor of Eaglescliffe with Edgar Meynell esq. the Rev. <& structure of 43 arches, each of about 40 feet span. A. G. Waldy M.A. rector of Yarm, the Earl of Eldon, "There are two stations in the parish, Eaglescliffe, Edgar Meynell esq. and the North Eastern Railway Co. -which is the junction of the line from Darlington, on 1 are the chief landowners. The soil is rich and loamy, ·the main line of the North Eastern railway to Stockton· and produces abundant crops of wheat, oats, beans and ran-Tees, and Yarm, which is the station for Eggles- turnips. The area is 1,523 acres of land, 21 of tidal oeliffe old village, on the main line of the North Eastern water and 6 of foreshore; rateable value, £14,813; the railway from Sunderland and Leeds. Part of the population of the township in 19II was 1,383 and of the modern village of Eaglescliffe, which takes its name ecclesiastical parish, 1,549· from the station there, is in the ecclesiastical parish of is a hamlet in this township, I mile north­ Holy Trinity, Stockton, and the civil parish of Preston· west. Here are the chemical works belonging to the on-Tees. The church of St. Mary is a building of Egglescliffe Chemical Co. Limited. o~tone in the Perpendicular or Third Pointed style, con- . . . . .-eisting of chancel, nave of two bays, south aisle, or A.ISL.A.BY (Aslac.kby) IS ~village and township, ~n the .:Aislaby c:fuapel, south porch and an embattled western parish _of. Eagleschffe, I mile south-west of the VIlla~. -tower with pinnacles, containing a peal of 8 tubular bells, The prmc1pal landowners are the Earl of Eldon and Silr hung in 1 897 in commemoration of the late Queen Henry Spencer Mo;eton Havelock-Alla.n bart. of Black­ 'Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, and two pre-Reformation well Grange, _Darlmgton. The area IS I,Bio acres of 'bells: in the chapel is the recumbent effigy of a mailed land, 20 of tidal water an? 5. of foreshore; rateable knight, and above are two chained books, one being value, £~·5 29; the populatiOn m I9II was 99· Yarm !Bishop Jewel's "Defence of his Apology for the Church (Yor~s), Is. the nearest money order and telegraph office, •Of England,'' in black letter; the other comprises some 1l miles distant. works attributed to Charles I. and supposed to have NEWSHAM is a small hamlet and township in Eggles­ 'been placed here by the Rev. Isaac Basire D.D. formerly cliffe parish, 3! miles south-west from the church. The Tector of Eaglescliffe, who was chaplain to King Charles I. principal landowners are John Page Sowerby J.P. of and King James II. and a distinguished missionary to the ~tokesley, Yorks, the trustees of Richard Jack~on and East: in the south porch, called "Pembertons," lies the the tl'Ustees of Messrs. Chapman and Morson. The area figure of another knight of Ai.slaby (Aslackby) in chain is I,446 acres, divided into six farms, and 15 of water; -armour; and over the door is a sundial dated 1779 with rateable value, £1,238; the population in 19n was 67. the motto, "Memento Mori:" the stained west window is Yarm (Yorks), 3l mile! distant, is the nearest money ·a memorial to the Rev. H. J. Maltby, a former rector, d. order and telegraph office. "Nov. 24, 1863, and there are others to the late Rev. Post Office, Egglescliffe. Mrs. Mary Postlethwaite, sub- John Hull M.A. and hon. canon of Manchester, rector postmistress. Letters arrive from Eaglescliffe, eo. !here 1864-86, and to the Rev. Ed. Kirby, erected in Durham. Deliveries 8.15 a.m. & 2.30 & 5.30 p.m.; 11905: in 1891 a fine stained window was erected at the sundays, 9.30 a.m. Box cleared for dispatches 8.45 •e&st end by the Rev. Canon Henry Powell, rector 18S6-97· a.m. & 2.30 & 6.45 p.m.; sundays, s.IO p.m. Yarm .and others, and three other stained windows were also (Yorks) is the nearest money order & telegraph office