DIRECTORY.] DURHAM. HAMSTERLEY • 209 • hart. of Acton Burnell, Salop, and the President of US'haw College. The soil is light, and the subsoil Public Elementary Schoole. rocky. Th~ population in I9II was 4,356, and is chiefly Cornsay Colliery (mixed & infants), built in 1876 & mining, with slight agricultural. enlarged in I9IO, for 546 children; average attend­ Letters to Hamsteels arrive from Durham at 8 a.m. via ance, mixed, 295 ; infants, 197; J oseph B. Bobson. Quebec master; Miss Emma Rosina Gray, infants' mistress Post. & M. 0. Office, Cornsay Colliery. Joseph Nor­ wood, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Durham, Quebec (mixed & infants), built in 1874, for 300 children ; average attendance. mixed, x8o; infants. 7.20 a.m. & 2.25 & 6.5 p.m.; dispatched 1.25, 5 & I 7-50 p.m. week days only. Quebec is the nearest 100; William Wood, master; Miss Dora Gascoigne. telegraph office, I mile distant infants' mistress Post, M. 0. & T. Office, Quebec.-.Mrs. Phcebe Adcock, Catholic (mixed), Cornsay Colliery, built in 1874• for sub-postmistress. Letters from Durham arrive et 200 children; average attendance. ss; Miss Winnie 7·I5 a.m. & 2.50 & 6.20 p.m.; dispatched at 1.10, Carroll, mistress 4·55 & 8.5 p.m. week days only HAMSTEELS. Coates Brothers, butchers & farmers , COMMERCIAL. Coxon Samuel G. Clifford house Cornsay Colliery Workmen's Institute· Adcock Phoobe (Mrs.), confectioner. Lowdon Thomas, Moor house & Club (Michael Curry esq. pres) Post office Nicholson Edward, Biggin terrace Crinnion Annie (Mrs.),Royal Oak P.H Cade Henry, hair dresser · Rust Rev. Edward M . .A..,B.D. (vicar), Curry Geo. Humphrey, colliery engnr Corker John, butcher Vicarage Esh Co-operative Society Limited Dobinson Robert, baker coMMERCIAL. Ferens &; Love, coal masters Dodds A. & &ns, butchers Armstrong Ralph & Mark, farmers, Gray William, beer retailer Dodds Alex. Hamsteels Colliery inn Old Hamsteels farm Hannon Thos.clerk to Parish Council Dunning Henry, shopkeeper Borthwick Thos. Hamsteels New inn Hodgson Margt. (Mrs.), Fir Tree P.H Esh Co-operative Society Limited Hamsteels Collieries (The Owners of) Holden James, ;refreshment rooms Hamsteels Colliery Institute (John (J. Burgoyne Johnson, managing Johnson Margaret (Mrs.), shopkeeper Burgoyne Johnson esq. J.P. pres) partner), colliery proprietors &; Kidd George, greengrocer Hardcastle George, greengrocer coke manufacturers; & at Durham Maughan Joseph, herbalist Harrison Richard, general dealer Hunter Jn. farmer,Quarry House frm Metcalfe John, hair dresser Harrison William, draper Keenlyside Alfred Foster, farmer, Mullen James, omnibus proprietor Kirkland James M.A., M.B., C.M. West Hamsteels farm Nicholson Thomas, butcher Glas. surgeon Kidd John, farmer, Greenland farm Norwood Joseph, statnr. Post office Territorial Force Battalion (8th) Love George & Tom, farmers, Malton Quinn Thos. farmer, Clickemin farm Durham Light Infantry (H Co. ; House farm Richards Richard, fried fish dealer Capt. J. B. Johnson; Color-Sergt.- Sadler Sir S. A. Limited, ~olliery Ridley John, farmer, Cornsay Lodge Instructor Thomas Richd. Turvey. owners, Malton colliery (postal & Low Row farms drill instructor) address, Esh, Durham) Smith George William, butcher Toward Parker, butcher Stephenson Thos. frmr. Rowley farm Storey Geo. Thos. hardware dealer Turvey Color-Sergt.-Instructor Thos. CORNS.A.Y COLLIERY Twizell Wm. farmer, Cornsay house Richard, drill instructor to H Co. · Willson Walter Limited, grocers 8th Battalion Durham Light In- Curry Michael J.P. Hawkhills house QUEBEC fan try Territorial Force, Drill hall COMMERCIAL. . Bell Thos. Jas. boot maker & drapr Kirkland James M.A., M.B HAMSTERLEY is a township, parochial chapelry and subsoil, clay. The land produces every description or village on the summit of a steep hill, 2i miles from crop, grass and arable being remarkably productive. Witton-Ie-Wear station on the Wear Valley branch of The area is 2,961 acres of land and 23 of water ; rate­ the North Eastern railway, and 7 miles west-by-north able value, £2,858; the population in 19II was 425 in from Bishop Auckland, in the Barnard Castle division of the township and 64I in the ecclesiastical parish. the county, north-west division of Darlington ward, Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Miss Alice Spence, sub-post­ Bishop Auckland petty sessional division and county mistress. Letters arrive from Witton-le-Wear, eo. court district, Auckland union, and in the rural deanery Durham, at 7.50 a.m. & 7 p.m.; dispatched at 5.30 and archdeaconry of Auckland and diocese BEDBURN is a township in the parish of, and ground added at a cost of £7o: the church was again I mile north from, Hamsterley. Here are the remain& of restored in 1909-1910: there are 200 sittings. The an early British encampment, cir. B.C. 2500. Happy­ register dates from the year 1582. The living is a land Park is the residence of Waiter Fell Pease esq. vicarage, net yearly value £28o, with residence, in the Dryderdale Hall, a stone mansion in pleasant grounds. gift of the Bishop of Durham, and held since 1905 by was built by the late Alfred Backhouse esq. of Pillmore the Rev. John Holliday M.A., L.Tib.. of University Col­ Hall, Darlington, and with Shull Hall is the property lege, Durham. A mission church was erected in I892 of Edward .Backhouse esq. J.P. The land is freehold~ in the centre of the village, close to the rectory, at a and there is no lord of the manor. The principal land­ cost of £3oo, raised by public subscription. Here are owners are Mrs. F. M. Izat, Capt. H. S. B. Surtees,. Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels, the former J. B. Backhouse esq. and John Walton Fogg Elliot esq. fo1tnded in I652. The Grove, a shooting box, beauti­ The area is 9,997 acres of land and 42 of water ; rate­ fully situated in a valley about 3 miles from Hamster­ able value, £3,180; the population in 19II 'WI'S 226. lay, is rented by W. L. A. B. Burdett-Coutts esq. M . .A.., M.P. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the Hamsterley is the nearest money order & telegraph manor; Capt. H. S. B. Surtees and Mrs. F. M .. Izat are office, I mile distant chief landowners. The soil is of a gravelly character ; Wall Letter Box, cleared at 5 p.m. week days only HAMSTERLEY. Dobson James C. schoolmaster, & Jewitt William, farmer, Park house Gray Matthew, Rosslyn hou~e clerk to South Bedburn Parish J ohnson George, Joiners' Arms P .H Holliday Rev. John M.A., L. Th. Conncil Littlefair John K. shopkeeper & (vicar), Vicarage Dodds Michael John, timber merchant assistan' overseer for Sth. Bedburn Milner Miss Featherstone William Dodd, farmer Metcalfe Thomas, farmer, Washbeck Fuller Robert, boot repairer Race Robert, farmer & auctioneer,. COMMERCIAL. Gardiner Jn. Rd. frmr. Low Moor hi High Moor hill Alderson Ralph P.farmr.Edge lmowle Gray Matthew, farmer Race William, farmer Binks Robert, farmer, Lane house Gray Roberl, farmer, Diddridge farm Raine Roqert, stone mason Blackett John, greengrocer Hall Robert, farmer Richardson Fred, cattle dealer, Pros- Coatsworth James, farmer Hamsterley & Dist1·ict Farmers' pect house Coatsworth Jonathan, but-cher Auction Mart Co. Limited (George Richardson Wm. farmer, Hollin hill Coatsworth Joseph W. farmer Thomas Spence, sec) Sanderson Frank, farmer, Pond houSEt Craggs Wm. farmer, Low Wether hill Henderson William, blacksmith Shaw John William,assistant overseer Deane George, boot repairer Heslop John, farmer Spence George Thos. grocer, & see. Dent Oliver, hrmer Hodgson George, farmer, Beckside to the Auction Mart Co. Limited DURHAM 14