DIRECTOR f.] DURHAM. WEST RAI~TON. 317 Hopper Michael, farmer, Fatfield frm Pittington & District Workmen's Club Murray William Cuthbert, Moor h0> Hutchinson Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper & Institute Limited (John Hender­ Whinn John, Moor house Jackson Jas. Duke of Wellington P.H son, sec.; Wm. Patterson, caretkr) COMMERCIAL. Jackson Thomas, fruiterer Potts Charlton, farmer, Hill side Char lesworth Louisa (Miss), shop­ Kyle Matthew Simpson, Wheat Sheaf Powney Thomas, fruiterer . keeper & sub-postmistress P.H Punshon William, joiner Dixon John (exors. of), farmers,. Literary Institute & Reading Room' Russell Hannah (Mrs.), news agent Littletown farm (William Robinson, sec) Stephenson Ralph, cattle dealer Downes Matthew, Duke of York P.H Lowrie Wm. Blacksmiths' Arms P.H Thompson James Bowman, shopkeepr Henderson William, colliery engineer Metcalfe John, hay & straw dealer, Wardle Phyll:ls (Miss), shopkeeper Hornsby George Henry, sub-agent for Bift farm Sherburn Hill colliery Piper Alfred, shopkeeper . Littletown Colliery Institute (Henry. Pittington Amicable Industrial Society LITILETOWN. Lloyd, sec) IJmited, grocers &c. (Ralph Green- Hornsby George Henry well, manager) I PLAWSWORTH, see Chester-le-Street. PORT CLARENCE, see Haverton Hill. QUARRINGTON, see Cassop-cum-Quarrington. QUEBEC, see Hamsteels. RABY, see Staindrop. EAST RAINTON is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in I Post Office. Miss M. A. Walker, sub-postmistress x866 from the parish of West Raint{)n, and comprises Letters from Fence Houses by foot post arrive at 7.30 the township of Moorsley and the larger part of the a.m. & 7.10 p.m.; dispatched at 3.40 & 7.15 p.m. township of East Rainton; it is on the road from Durham (except sundays); no delivery on sundays. West to Sunderland, 2 miles south-east from Fence Houses Rainton is the nearest money order & t.elegraph office •. station on the main line of the North Eastern railway and 2 miles distant 1i suuth-west from Houghton-le-Spring, in the Hough- Public Elementary School (mixed), built in x868, for- ton-le-Spring division of the county, north division of 109 children; average attendance, 91; James Tilley.. Easington ward, Houghton-le-Spring petty sessional divi- master sion and union, Durham county court district, rural I This school is controlled by the Houghton-le-Spring- deanery of Houghton-le-Spring and archdeaconry .and Di!!trict Education Sub-Committee; John P. Tulip, diocese of Durham. The church of St. Cuthbert, erected William street, HoughtQn-le-Spring, diSitrict clerk in 1866, is a plain building of stone, in the Early Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, vestry, MOORSLEY is a township, x mile south-west from 110uth porch and a western turret containing one bell : the Hetton station on the Durham and Sunderland' three of the windows are stained: the church affords branch of the North Eastern railway. North Hetton 150 sittings. The register dates from t·he year r866. Colliery is the property of Sir Lindsay Wood bart. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £288, with 1 D.L., J.P. of Chester-le-Street, and partners, who· residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of have two pits working in this township, and also· Durham, and held since 1909 by the Rev. Waiter Rhodes extensive fire brick works and large magnesian lime· Egerton B.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. There stone quarries. Here is a mission chapel attached to is a W esleyan chapel !here, and a Primitive Methodist St. Cuthbert's church, and also W esleyan and Primitiv~ chapel at Middle Rainton. The Hetton Urban District Methodist chapels. The Dean and Chapter of Durham and Houghton-le-Spring Rural District Southern In- are lords of the manor. The chief landowners are the­ factious Diseases Hospit-al was erected in 1893 at a cost Marquess of Londonderry K.G., P.C., G.C.V.O., C.B. of £r,4oo, and will hold 12 patients. The Houghton- and the North Hetton Coal Company. The soil is clay le-Spring and Hett.on Urban Districts and Houghton-le- and in high land is maTl; the subsoil, clayey. The Spring Rural District Joint Smallpox Hospital is also chief crops are wheat, oats and turnips. The area of in this district; the latter was erected in 1908, at a the township is 6o3 acres; rateable value, £2,576; the cost of £2,500, and will hold 16 patients. In the town- population in :rgn was :r,o38. ship are extensive coal mines belonging to the North Post & M. 0. Office, Low Moorsley. John Gilliland,. Hetton Coal Company and the Marquess of London- sub-postmaster. Letters from Hetton-le-Hole, eo. derry. The Dean and Chapter of Durham, who are Durham, which is the nearest telegraph office, arrive- lords of the manor, and the Marquess of Londonderry at 7.15 a.m. & 6 p.m. ; dispatched at 9 a. m. & 5· 10 & K.G., P.C., G.C.V.O., C.B. are the chief landowners. 7 p.m.; no delivery on sundays The soil is clayey; the subsoil is clay. The chief crops Letter Box, High Moorsley Walls, cleared at 9 a.m. & are wheat, oats and turnips. The area of the township 7 p.m i-s 1,091 acres; rateable value, £6,329; the population North Hetton School, built in I87o, for 372 children;. in 19II was 1,503. The area of the eoclesiastical parish average attendance,199 boys & girls; Joseph Boustead, is I,58o acres; the population in 19n was 1,849· master; infants', built in 1902, for 122 children; Parish Clerk, William Davis. average attendance, 91; Miss C. A. Hodgson, mistress- EAST RAINTON. M.D.Glas., L.R.C.S. & L.M.Edin. overseer & clerk to the Parish Egerton Rev. Waiter Rhodes B.A. medical supt.; Geo.Smith,caretkr) Council for East Rainton (vicar), Vicarage Butchinson Humphrey, farmer, Lower Barvey James Henry, grocer Oliver Thomas, Summer house farm J oycy Fred, Grey Horse inn Wood Thomas, Rainton house Hutchinson Thomas, farmer Lees William, Wheatsheaf P.H COMMERCIAL. Maughan Sidney, Village tavern Low Moorsley Amicable Industrial Bailey John, farmer Raffell William, shopkeeper Soc. Lim. (Samson Sleeman, sec) Bailey Joseph, joiner Robson Edward Alfred, butcher Mc.Ardle Peter, Lamb inn Bones George, Travellers' Rest P.H Scott Jn. miller (water), Rainton mill Maughan Charles, colliery engineer Forrest Mary (Miss), shopkeeper Walker Jn. frmr. Summer House frm Minto Willia.m Rippon, farmer Hardy Geo.Anthony,farmer,North pit Walker Margaret Ann (Miss), shop- Molloy Joseph, Black Boy P.H Hetton Urban District & Houghton- keeper, Post office North Hetton Coal Co. (Thomas Wood,_ le-Spring Rural District Southern Whitehead William, grocer manager; J ames Burn, sec.), col- Infectious Diseases Hospital (Fdk. Young Henry, hawker liery owners & fire brick manufrs- Burdett Cormick l.'LB., C.M.Glas. :MOORSLEL North Hetton Institute (Henry Atkin- medical supt. ; Thomas Kane, son, sec) caretaker) COMMERCIAL. Scurfield William, hair dresser Houghton-le-Spring & Hetton Urban Edgerton Elizabeth (Mrs.),Crown inn Wade Catherine (Mrs.), monumental District Councils & Houghton-le- Eng-lish Elizabeth Jane (Miss), grocer mason Spring- Rural Di~trict Council Joint Fawcett Thomas Coulson, surveyor to Wood Thomas, mining engineer to Smallpox Hospital (James Adamson North Hetton colliery & assistant North Hetton colliery WEST RAINTON is a parish, comprising the town- from Durham to Sunderland, with a station at Leamside ships of Cocken, Moorhouse and West Rainton and the on the North Eastern railway, and is 4 miles north·east villages of Leamside and Middle Rainton, and was from Durham and 260 from London. The church of formed July 27, 1818, from the parishes of Houghton- St. Mary the Virgin, rebuilt in 1864, at a cost of £6,000, le-Spring and Pittington ; in the Houghton-le-Sprin~ is an edifice of stone in the earliest Middle Poinh>rl style, division of the county, north division of Easington ward, and the de~ign is characterized by exceeding- loftiness ; Houghton-le-Spring petty sessional division and union, it consists of chancE'l, nave, aisles, north and south porches county court district of Durham, rural deanery of and a tower at the north-west angle, with spire rising to Hougohton-lE'-Spring and archdeaconry and diocese of ll an altitude of 130 feet, and containing a clock and one Durham. West Rainton is a township, on the road . bell: the spire and tower were the gift of Sir George • .