~96 L.AMESLEY, DtJBHAM. [KELLY'I1 KIRK MERRINGTON, see Merrington. LAMEST·EY is a village and civil parish, on the daughter became the wife of Sir Henry G,11scoyn, and frOJJI river Team, with a station on the Team Valley branch of his descendant, Sir William Gascovn. the manors n' the North Eastern railway, 5 miles north from Chaster-le­ Ravensworth, Lamesley and Eighton- were purchased i11 Street, 4 south from and 14 north from Dur­ 1607 by Thomas Liddell esq. whose son Thomas wa~ bam, in the Chester-le-Street division of the county, mid created a baronet on the 2nd of November, 1642, afte:o division of Chester ward, petty sessional division and having defended the town of Newcastle against th~ onion of Chester-le-Street, county court district of Scots, and paid the sum of £4,ooo to the sequestrator~ Gateshead, and in the rural deanery of Chaster-le-Street for his estates : the original purchase deeds of that date and archdeaconry and diocese of Durham. The church (r6o7), still preserved, show that the name was then of St. Andrew is an edifice of stone, in the Perpen­ written "Ravenshelme :" it is recorded that his famil"• dicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, were anciently lords of Liddell Castle and the barony of aisles and an embattled western tower with turret C'on­ Buit, and they have been the proprietors of considerable taining one bell: the church was rebuilt in I758, the eoal works from the time of their settling in thil• tower in I82I, and subsequently the chancel was county : Sir Thomas , the seventh renewed at the cost of Thomas Henry, first Lord baronet, was raised to the peerage in 1821 by the title Ravensworth of the 2nd creation: the organ was of Baron Ravensworth, having previously taken down presented by Henry Thomas, first Earl of Ravensworth, part of the old castle (~\.D. r8o8) and commenced the as a memorial of his father, who died March 7• I855: erection of the present beautiful structure: two of the there are six stained windows: the church received con­ ancient towers are yet standing : the excellent white siderable alterations and additions in 1884 and later, at a freestone of which the castle is constructed was obtained total cost of £2,ooo: in 190I the carved oak choir stalls from the Heworth quarries: the long extended front, with were erected at a cost of £1oo, and an addition made to its numerous but irregular towers, faces towards the the burial ground, the land being given by the 2nd Earl south-south-east : the stvle• of architecture is variouss-- of Ravensworth, and laid out at a cost of £roo: there are the windows Elizabethan, and it has three fronts, with 358 sittings. The register dates from the year 1603. The square and octagonal embattled towers, one of which living was declared a vicarage November 20, x866, net has a reservoir on its summit, capable of holding 3,ooo yearly value £212, with residence, in the gift of Lord gallons of water: the principal entrance, on the north Ravensworth, and held since 1898 by the Rev. John :;;ide, over which is a statue of H.M. , Croft B.A., L.Th. of Durham University. Charities of opens into a noble hall IOO feet long, 36 feet wide and about £27 yearly value, left by Major-General Sir so high, beyond which is a gallery containing some Leonard Greenwell, a native of Lamesley ; and some valuable paintings by old masters; from the centre of -smaller charities are distributed by the incumbent and the hall is the entrance to the gallery and the suite of 'Churchwardens at Christmas in food and clothing to rooms in the south front, the dining-room, so feet long, the poor. There is an almshouse, built in 1835 by and the saloon, library, museum and conservatory: in Maria Susanna., Lady Ravensworth, for eight aged the library is a painting of George IV. by Sir Thomas people, who are generally chosen from the servants of Lawrence: the grounds are tastefully laid out, and the family. Lord Ravensworth, who is lord of the contain fish ponds, as well as some noble specimens of manor, Slingsby Duncombe Shafto esq. J.P. of Beamish cedars of ~ebanon, gigantic rhododendrons, and a Park, and the Earl of Strathmore are the principal venerable oak 20 feet in girth. Near to Ravensworth landowners. The soil and subsoil are clayey and heavy; Castle is a stone column, concerning which there is a here is also some rich meadow and pasture land. The tradition that it was one of the crosses erected to hold -chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The markets at during the great plague in Newcastle in area is 7,167 acres of land and IO of water; rateable 1645, and when the produce of the country was not Talue, £4o,666; the population in I9II was 6,369 in the allowed to be exposed for sale at a less distance than 3 dvil and 2,985 in the ecclesiastical parish. miles from that town. HEDLEY is a hamlet z! miles south-west. Letters through Swalwell, eo. Durham. Post Office, Kibblesworth.-Miss Annie Forster, sub­ postmistress. Letters are received by foot post via KIBBLESWORTH is a hamlet, r mile south-west from Gateshead at 8.30 a.m. & 5.30 p.m. & are dispatched Lamesley station. There are Wesleyan and Primitive at 8.45 a.m. & 5-45 p.m.; no delivery on sundays. Methodist chapels, and a colliery. Birtley, 3 miles distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office RA VENSWOR'IH is r mile north. Ravensworth Castle, Lamesley Village. Letters are received by foot post via the seat of Lord Ravensworth, stands in its park at Gateshead at 8.30 a.m. Wall Letter Box cleared at a distance of 3 miles south-south-west from New­ ro. 15 a.m. & 6.15 p.m. The nearest money order & -castle, and commands a fine view of the valley of Lames­ telegraph office is at Low Fell, about I mile distant lay. In the oldest records concerning Ravensworth, the There is a telegraph office at Lamesley Railway station, village is written " Raffenswarth," and the castle " Raf­ with delivery on station premises only; open from 6.30 fenshelm," the first signifying the estate and the second a.m. to I r. 15 p.m. m on. to fri. & on sat. to 9.30 the fortress of "Ra:ffen," which, being the cognizance of p.m the Danish standard, shows that they were anciently pos­ Public Elementary Schools. sessed by the Danes, who probably were the founders of These schools are under the control of the Chaster-le­ the castle, as we do not find in the episcopal archives any Street District Education Committee; T. Barker, licence to embattle and crenellate the house of Ravens­ Cone house, Front street, Chester-le-Street, district worth, though of every other castle in the county, except clerk Brancepeth and Barnard Castles, there is that evidence. Bishop Flambard granted this and other manors to his Lamesley (mixed), erected in r862, for 232; average nephew Richard, to be held by homage and knight's ser­ attendance, 64; Arthur Edmund Bolton, master vice ; in 1357 mention occurs of " the Lady of Ravens­ Kibblesworth (mixed), for 242 children; average attend­ worth," and in 1368 she is styled "Countess of Rnvens­ ance, I93; Joseph Corker, master helm :" about the year I':J70 the estate belonged to a Harlow Green (mixed), erected in 1909, for 328; average branch of the Lumley family, with whom it continued till attendance, I59; Thomas Williams, master their heiress married Sir Henry Boynton, whose only Railway Station, Richard Wilkinson, station master LAMESLEY. -tPhuler CharlM Henry, Belvedere Henry Thos. farmer, Moor Mill farm (Marked thus t letters should be tPowelJ. Frederick Robert, Rhodeferns Kirlmp George William, farmer, addre.ssed Low Fell, Gateshead.) tRichardson John, Normadale Urpeth Ridin~ (letters thro' Birtley} PRIVATE RESIDENTS. -t"Simms William, Lonister Marshall Edward. farmer, North frm tAinsley John, Carisbrooke tSpink RiPhard, Hazelmere Peel Rabert, assistant overseer & tAllrn Campbell, Crathie tWardill William.Edwin, Craigielea clerk to the Pari~h Couneil tAnderson William, Elmstead tW('loh James, Laburnum avenue Pyhurn Joseph & Thomas, farmers, tArmstronQ" Robert. Wyvenhoe tWilliams George. Ash~rove High Eighton tCiough William, Ravenshurst 1fWylie Richard, Dene croft Thompson Joseph, blacksmith tCochrane Duncan A. Marbury tYoung Thomas, Castle View cottage 1Vaddell John, farmer, Long acre tColler Frederick Ernest, Lyndhurst 1.Ymmg Watson, .A.rladale Wealleans Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Lady Croft Rev. John B.A., L.Th. (vicar), COMMERCIAL. Park ~arm Vicarage Birtley Iron Co. Pelaw Main, Bavens- tFerry William, Inglewood worth & Bewicke Main collieries CHOWDEAN. Grieves Thomas, Allerdean cottage Dryden Chas. farmer, South farm PRIVATE RESIDENTS. tHepple Thomas, Bvthorne Hardy John, Ravensworth Arms P.H ·Brown James, Park view • Kirlmp Ernest H. Eighton lodge Hedley William, farmer, Harlow grn Guthrie A. Glenbrooke