Kelly’s Directory of Durham 1890 - COXHOE
COXHOE with the hamlet of East Hetton form a township in the civil parish of Kelloe, and constituted an
ecclesiastical parish in 1868 from the parishes of Bishop Middleham and Kelloe: it is in the Mid division
of the county, the south division of Easington ward, union, county court district and petty sessional
division of Durham, rural deanery of South Easington, and archdeaconry and diocese of Durham: the
village of Coxhoe, situated 5 miles south-east of Durham, on the high road from the latter place to
Sedgefield, is nearly 1 mile in length, and contains some good inns and shops: the houses on the west side
of the street or village are in Cornforth parish. The Ferry Hill and Hartlepool branch of the North
Eastern railway has a station at Coxhoe Bridge, half a mile from the village.
The Church of St Mary, consecrated in 1868, is a building of stone, in Early Decorated style, Consisting
of chancel, nave, south porch, and has one bell: there are 550 sittings. The register dates from the year
1868. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £300, with residence, in the gift of the Crown and the Bishop
of Durham alternately, and held since 1867 by the Rev David Flemming B.A. of Glasgow University,
F.R.A.S. Here is a Wesleyan Chapel, a building of red brick with white brick dressings, erected in 1871,
at a cost of £1,000, and seating 500 persons, and a Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1865, seating
400 persons. There is a reading room well supplied with the local &c. papers.
In the neighbourhood are extensive collieries, coke ovens and stone quarries, which give employment to
the inhabitants; there are also lime works, and brown pottery ware and pipe making is carried on.
Coxhoe Hall, the property of Thomas Wood esq. D.L., J.P. of Barrowhedges, Carshalton, Surrey, and the
residence of William Henry Wood esq. is a handsome mansion, erected by J Burdon esq. in 1725 and
occupies an elevated position, approached by a fine avenue of trees, half a mile east from the village.
Thomas Ward esq. D.L., J.P. and the trustees of the late Mrs Jones are the principal landowners. The
soil is loam & Clay; the subsoil, limestone. The area of Coxhoe is 1,104 acres; rateable value £4,115; the
population of the township in 1881 was 2,454.
Post, M.O. & T.O., S.B. & Annuity & Insurance Office (Railway Sub-Office) – Thomas Kingston,
postmaster
Insurance Agent – Sovereign Life, W Gavin
Police Station, Joseph Wressell, sergeant & 6 constables
Schools
A School Board of 5 members was formed in 1875; Charles Board, Sdler St Durham, clerk of the board
Board, East Hetton (mixed & infants), erected in 1887, for 220 boys & girls & 90 infants; average
attendance, 204 mixed & 88 infants; Henry Rowe, master; Miss Isabella Robson, infant mistress
Board. Quarrington Hill, built in 1889, for 60 infants; average attendance, 60; Miss Lees, mistress
National, built in 1871 for 290 children; average attendance, 232; William Reed, master
Primitive Methodist, built in 1870, for 140 children; average attendance 99; Mrs Isabella Cooper,
mistress
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Railway Stations
Coxhoe Bridge, Matthew Marley, station master
Coxhoe Colliery, John Hughff, station master
Private Residents
Bell Thomas
Cowburn Mrs.
Fleming Rev. David B.A., F.R.A.S
Fletcher Henry
Hepburn William Alexander
Lawson Rev. Thomas B.A. [curate]
Lister Joseph
MacDermott William
Picken John
Tate Misses
Tate Mrs
Wood William Henry
Cornforth Lane
Vicarage
Blackgate
Linden Villa
Blackgate
Belgrave
Coxhoe Hall
Commercial
Anderson Mary Elizh. (Mrs), gen. dealr
Ayre William, boot maker
Ballan Anthony, shopkeeper & carter
Barras Coatman, shopkeeper
Bell John & Joseph, lime burners
Bell Martin, builder &
Bell Thomas, builder
Bell Thomas, cabinet maker
Bell William, farmer
Best John, wheelwright
Bloomfield Albert, blacksmith
Booth & Hall, brickmakers
Booth John, tailor & coffee house
Bowerbank Hannah (Mrs),
Bowerbank Robert,
Brown Thomas, butcher
Carr, Aaron, tailor
Carr Esther (Mrs), grocer
Carr George, butcher & farmer
Blackgate
Tynside Inn
West Hetton Inn
Three Tunns Inn
Quarrington Hill
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Carr John, shopkeeper,
Quarrinton Hill
Cawthorne Jn George, grocer
Cornforth Lane
Collingwood Edward, farmer
Cow Close
Connolly Patrick
Red Lion
Cope John, clogger
Cornforth & Coxhoe Co-operative Society Ltd (Mark Robinson, manager; Walter Macdonald, sec)
Croft Simon, miller (water) & farmer
Cuthbert Kate (Miss), dressmaker
Davison Thomas, fruiter
Davison Thomas, grocer & agent for W. A. Gilbey, wine & spirit merchants
Garnett Robert, general dealer
Gas Works (Jn. Foster, prop.)
Heads Geo.
Victoria,
Cornforth Lane
Hepburn William Alexander F.F.P.S.Glas. surgeon & medical officer & public vaccinator, Southern
district, Durham union,
Blackgate.
Herbert Jn, farmer,
East & West farms
Heron Robert, blacksmith
Hewison Richard, tailor
Hope Thomas, shopkeeper
Quarrington Hill
Hopper Benjamin, tailor
Hopper John, parish clerk & sexton
Hudson William,
Anchor Inn
Hughff John, station master
Coxhoe Colliery station
Humble Elizth. (Mrs) shopkeeper
Davy Lamp
Humphries Alfd. J. farmer
East pasture
Hunt Charles, farmer
Jamieson Andrew, boot 7 shoe maker
Jenkins Josiah, hawker,
Blackgate
Johnson Elizabeth (Mrs),
Clarence Inn
Keaveny Brian, beer retailer
Blackgate
Kingston Thomas, general dlr. & post off
Laing Thomas, farmer &
Railway Hotel
Leighton William, farmer
Lockey Henry, butcher
Lockey Henry, framer
Blackgate
Lockey Thomas W., butcher
Lowe Robert, butcher & farmer
Lowes James, drapr
MacDermott William L.R.C.P.Edin physicial & surgeon, Linden Villa
Macdonald Walter, sec to the Cornforth & Coxhoe Co-operative Society Ltd
Marley Matthew, stationmaster
Coxhoe Bridge Station
Marr, Thos
Black Boy, Quarrington Hill
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Marwood George, news agent
Norfolk George, farmer
Seven Stars, Blackgate
Orton Henry, insurance agent
Pamley William, boot maker
Picken Wm, butcher & farmer
Blackgate
Pile Thomas, boot & shoe maker
Reading Room (Thos. Roninson.hon.sec)
Reed Wm. National schoolmaster.
Blackgate
Robinson John & Thomas, earthenware manufacturer, Coxhoe Pottery
Robinson Mark, manager to the Cornforth & Coxhoe Co-operaoperative Soc Ltd.
Robinson Thomas, assistant overseer
Robson John Wm. Milk dealer
Rose Wm.
Dunn Cow, Quarrington Hill
Rudderham James, beer retailer
Salisbury George, confectioner
Sanderson Thomas, joiner
Scott Isabella (Mrs)
Bridge hotel
Scott William
Davy Lamp
Senior John, grocer
Simpson Charles, farmer
Smith John James, grocer
Swinton Robert, fruiterer
Tasker Mark John, tailor
Teasdale Geo. C shopkpr.
Quarrington Hill
Thompson Joseph, shopkeeper
Tindale Margaret (Miss), day school,
Cornforth
Toulson William Thos.
Commercial Inn
Trusdale Aga (Mrs), news agent
Walker John
Red Lion, Blackgate
Wandless Michael, hatter
Watson William, shopkeeper
Blackgate
Whitwell Thomas, rag merchant
Wilkinson Mary Ann (Mrs), Crow Tree Colliery Inn,
Quarrington Hill
Wilson Robert, blacksmith,
Blackgate
Wood Wm. Hy. Mining enginr.
Coxhoe Hall
Wressell Joseph, Police sergeant
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