DIRECTORY. J DURHAM. SOUTH HYLTON. 205 comprise a portion of the original nave, with a fragment of son, of Monkwearmouth Grange. The soil is clayey ; sub­ an old window at the west end and an Italian doorway, soil clay.. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, turnips transepts of t.wo stories with semi-hexagonal terminations and potatoes. The area is 2,760 acres; rateable value, and well lighted in both stories by plain triplets, and a £9,397; the population in 1881 was 1,533· chancel : on each side of the west window is a shield of a1·ms PosT 0FFICE.-Robert Riddle, receiver. Letters through of Hylton, quartering Vipont and Stapleton, one having Sunderland, arrive at 10.40 a. m.; dispatched at 10.45 a. m. supporters, and above the arch and on both transepts are & 4 p.m. Castletown is the nearest money order & tele. similar shields : the fabric was dismantled at the time of the graph office Reformation, but was restored at the beginning of the last PosT, M. 0. 0. & S. B. Cast]etown.-Letters arrive from century by the last baron of Hylton, who refitted the interior Sunderland at 9 a.m. & are collected at 10 a.m. & with stalls in the Italian style, and at the beginning of the 4·3o p.m • present t:entury it was opened for divine service by the late ScHOOLs:- Mr. Temple, but is now entirely disused: in the chapel were A School Board of five members was formed here July 24, buried Sir William Hylton kt. ob. 1505, and Sir Thomas 1876, with schools here & at Castletown; :F. J. McKenzie, Hylton kt. hi3 grandson, ob. circ. 1558. Connected with 16 John street, Sunderland, clerk to the board; John the Castle are several curious legends, relating to the roe­ Gardiner, Southwick, attendance officer buck cognizance of the Hyltons and to a domestic sprite, Board, North Hylton, for 6o children; average attendance, known as the "Cauld or Cowd Lad o' Hylton," said to be 45 ; Miss Eliza MacPherson, mistress the apparition of a servant boy, accidentally slain by one of Board, Castletown (mixed & infants), erected in 1882, at a the ancient lords. Messrs. Briggs are the chief landowners ; cost Of £2,000, for 300 children; average attendance, 40 the other landowners are Miss Lacey and the Misses Thomp- boys & girls & 23 infants ; Miss Lydia Bos well, mistress Briggs Colonel Charles JamesD.L.,J.P. Black Benjamin, farmer, Woodhouse fm Metcalf John, farmer, Park House farm Hylton castle BlackRobt.&Edwd.frmrs. WestWoor fm Osbourne, Graham & Co. iron & steel Briggs Douglas Hilton Bowes John, farmer, .North Moor farm ship builders G-reen Rev. Chas.Rd.M.A. The Vtcarage Craggs James, farmer, Hylton dene Phillips Joseph, Castletown hotal Lacey Misses, Mansion house DobsouEiizh.(Mrs.),Earl of Durham P.H Raine John & Sons, manufmg. chemist> Mudd John, Oswald house Grim-haw W .. & Sons, cement manu- Riddle Robert, grocer, Post offiae Raine John facturers, North Hylton cement works Smith Peter,markt.gardnr. Dene grdns Hayton Thomas, blacksmith Stewart John, butcher COMMERCIAL. Henderson Robert,farmer, Grange farm Todd Henry, Shipwrights' Arms P.H. Armstrong George, Oak Tree inn Lonsdale John, Three Horseshoes P.H , Wear Steel Co. Limited, steel manufrs Atkinson Hy. markt.gardnr.Denegrdns McLaren Jas. farmer,Hylton Red house

SOUTH HYLTON is an ecclesiastical parish, formed FORD township, 2 miles west of Sunderland, is includ~d in March 3, 1854• from the parish of Bishopwearmouth, and the ecclesiastical parish of South Hylton. The principal comprises the township of FORD and GRINDON HousE, in landowners are George John Scurfield esq. M.A. 1 D.L., J,P, that parish, and is bounded on the north by the river Wear who is lord of the manor, and WiUiam Dodd Pratt esq. and on the south by the road from Sunderland to Chester­ Ford Hall, in this township, was the birth-placE: (April 5, le-Street, 3 miles west from Sunderland, with a station on 1795) of Major-General Sir Henry Havelock K.c.~. the re­ the Sunder]and and Bishop Auck1and section of the North nowned hero of Cawnpore and Lucknow in the Indian Eastern railway: it is in the Houghton-le-Spring division of mutiny of f857, and is now in the occupation of John Scott the county of Durham, north division of Easington ward, esq. J. P. Area, I,ooo acres ; rateable value, £15,810 ; th3 union, petty sessional division and county court district of population in x881 was 2,631. · Sunderland, rural deanery of Bishopwearmouth and arch­ deaconry and diocese of Durham. The church of St. Mary, PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. destroyed by fire, March 9th, 1878, was rebuilt in I88o, at -Anthony Gowens, postmaster, High street. Letters a cost of about £3,000, and consecrated 21st June of that through Sunderland, arrrive at 8.45 a. m. & 1.15 & 6.ss year: it is an edifice in the Gothic style, consisting of chan­ p.m.; dispatched at II.Io a. m. & 4.40 & 8.55 p.m cel, nave, north chapel and a turret containing one l;lell: Board School (mixed & infants), bui1t in 1877, at a cost of there are 340 sittings. The register dates from the year £4,000, for 150 boys, 150 girls & 200 infants; a\·erage 1820. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £300, attendance, 140 boys, 130 girls & 160 infants ; Joseph with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Durham, and Bentley, master; Miss Elizabeth Proud, mistress; Miss held since 1872 by the Rev. William CaJlis T.A.K.c. L. Here Mary Dixon, infants' mistress are Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist and United Methodist Police Station, John Johns, sergeant chapels. George John Scurfield esq. M.A., D.L., J.P. of Hurworth-on-Tees, is lord of the manor and chief landowner. Hylton Railway t:!tation, John Waugh, station master PRIVATE RESIDENTS, I Chisholm Margaret (Mrs.),Commercial Leg-at Andrew Eddowes L.R.C.P.Edin.. Rertram George, 10 Railway terrace P.H. 32 High street surgeon- & medical officer, Furd & Brown Mrs. 11 Railway terrace ClazeyCharlt.(.Mrs.),cnfctr.4Cambria st Hylton districts, Sunderland union, Callis Rev. Wm. T.A.K.C.L.The Vicarage Close John, greengrocer, 23 High street 9 Railway terrdce Douglas Martin, Wear Water cottage ClowesJ n.George&Dragon inn,Quay sde Lloyd William Edward, Wheatsheaf Gales Mrs. J<'ord cottage 1 Cornett James Porteous, Paper Works inn, High street Graham Edwin, Ford lodge west manager, Claxheugh Mather William, chemist, 17 Church st Legat Andrew Eddowes, 9 Railwayter EdwardWm.Firmis!;er,drapr.nHigh st MilnerThos.Chas.butcher,6Dawson ter Pratt William Dodd, Field house Ford Works Co. Limited, paper manu- Outterside William Neasham, grocer, 19 Scott John J.P. Ford hall I facturers (J. P. Cornett, manager) Dawson terrace Short Thomas, Fo:rd lodge Gaygill Thomas, grocer, 3 Railway ter Pattison John Brack, farmer, Low Ford Thompson Mrs. Mount Pleasant Gibbon Matthew, beer retailer, White- Reay & Usher, iron manufacturers, The Usher Ralph Hodgson, Tower house haugh gardens Forge, Cambria street Wigham John, 7 Railway terrace Gibbons Matthew, assistant overseer, Richardson John George, hair dresser, COMMERCIAL. 13 Railway terrace Railway cottage Alderson Joseph, Renforth. P.H. Ferry Gowens Anthony, grocer, Post office, RownsKate(Mrs. ),shpkpr.42Cambria st Boat row 3 High street Shepherd John, beer retailer, Wear st Anderson Thomas, shopkpr. 8 Blithe st Gowens Michael, shopkpr. 2 Dawson ter Short Joseph, butcher, 4 High street Anderson William, tailor, 2 Alma street Goodfellow Wm. beer ret.4 Railway ter ShortThomas,Victoria P.H.19Church st Armstrong Mary Ann (Mrs.), Jolly Grieveson John, greengrocer, 5 High st South Hylton Gas Light & Coke Co. Potters P.R. Waterside Haddock Thos. bootma. Back Sunniside Lim. (Henry Rawlings, sec.; Samuel Bagnall R. S.& Sons, iron manufacturs. Heslop Dorot.hy (Miss ),grocr.7 Blithe st Lindley, manager) Hylton forge Hill William, hosier, 37 & 38 High st Stephenson Robert, Railway inn, Rail- Banks John, draper, 18 Dawson terrace HutchinsonThos.farmer,High Ford frm way terrace Banks William,boot maker,6 Cambria st Hutchinson Willis, farmer, Ferry farm Todd James, contractor, Sycamore vil Barber John, cowkeeper, Union street Hudson John, shopkpr. Back Church st Walker Chas.farmer,Breckon Hill farm BrayfieldElizh.(Mrs.),grocr.3Churchst Hylton Cement Co. cement manufac­ WalkerThos.Rumsey,irnmgr. 10Higil s::; Broad George, Golden Lion inn, High st turers (Andrew Lowson, proprietor) Waugh John, station master Brown James, shopkeepr. 3 Dawson ter HyltonShipwrights'Institute,Church st WeigbtmanEdwd.frmr.NorthFord tr n lkown John (Mrs.), rivet manufacturer Jenkins T. & S. grocers,Ferry Boat row Weightman Edwd.Jas.SouthFord farm Brown William, Leopard inn, Quayside Johns John, police sergeant, Police sta- Wigham John, mechanical enginee:·, Bulmer Thos. grocer, Back Church st t10n, 44 Cambria street :Ferry Boat row Carr George, joiner, 3 Frederick street Kirtley Matthew, butcher, 7 High st Willis Thos.farmer,Garden House farm Char] ton Christr. farmer, Ford farm Kirtley William, grocer, 8 High street