Cockfield Civil Parish
Reference: CP/Coc Catalogue Title: Cockfield Civil Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Local Authority Records Description:
Covering Dates: 1881-1999
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- Cockfield Civil Parish
- Cockfield Civil Parish (Ref: CP/Coc 1-125)
- Parish Council meetings (Ref: CP/Coc section 01)
- Minute books (Ref: CP/Coc 1-4, 93-97, 124/1-5)
- Notices of meetings (Ref: CP/Coc 91, 107)
- Elected members (Ref: CP/Coc section 02)
- Declarations of acceptance of office (Ref: CP/Coc 98-106)
- Financial records (Ref: CP/Coc section 03)
- Receipt and payment books (Ref: CP/Coc 5-7, 79, 86)
- Treasurers' books (Ref: CP/Coc 8)
- Register of loans (Ref: CP/Coc 9)
- Financial statements (Ref: CP/Coc 10-41, 92, 125/1-2)
- Other financial records (Ref: CP/Coc 88)
- Rates (Ref: CP/Coc section 04)
- Precept books (Ref: CP/Coc 89-90)
- Correspondence (Ref: CP/Coc section 05)
- Plans (Ref: CP/Coc section 06)
- Other plans (Ref: CP/Coc 66-67, 69, 77-78)
- Ordnance Survey plans (Ref: CP/Coc 70-76)
- Cemetery (Ref: CP/Coc section 07)
- Registers of graves (Ref: CP/Coc 55-56)
- Registers of burials (Ref: CP/Coc 57-58)
- Plans (Ref: CP/Coc 61-65, 68)
- Registers of fees (Ref: CP/Coc 80)
- Grants of exclusive right of burial (Ref: CP/Coc 81-85)
- Correspondence (Ref: CP/Coc 108-109)
- Title deeds (Ref: CP/Coc 110)
- New burial ground (Ref: CP/Coc 111)
- Allotments (Ref: CP/Coc section 08)
- Registers (Ref: CP/Coc 42-44)
- Rent books (Ref: CP/Coc 45-49, 87)
- Title deeds (Ref: CP/Coc 112)
- Village Green (Ref: CP/Coc section 09)
- Title deeds (Ref: CP/Coc113-120, 123)
- Cockfield Fell (Ref: CP/Coc section 10)
Catalogue Contents
Cockfield Civil Parish (Ref: CP/Coc 1-125)
Cockfield was the central township of Cockfield parish
- part of Teesdale Poor Law Union 1834-1930
- a civil parish in 1866, with an elected council from 1894
- part of Teesdale Rural Sanitary District 1875-1894
- part of Barnard Castle Rural District 1894-1974
- part of Teesdale District 1974-2009
Parish Council minutes, 1895 - 1906
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Coc 2Parish Council minutes, 1906 - 1923
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Coc 3Parish Council minutes, 1923 - 1934
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Coc 4Parish Council minutes, 1934 - 1948
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Coc 93Minute book, 7 September 1948 - 7 December 1954
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: CP/Coc 94Minute book, 15 February 1955 - 5 February 1963
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: CP/Coc 95Minute book, 12 March 1963 - 12 March 1968
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: CP/Coc 96Minute book, 2 April 1966 - 4 April 1972
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: CP/Coc 97Minute book, 2 May 1972 - 3 October 1978
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: CP/Coc 124/1Minute book, 4 December 1894 - 7 March 1995
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Coc 124/2Minute book, 5 April 1983 - 1 March 1988
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Coc 124/3Minute book, 1 March 1988 - 15 January 1991
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Coc 124/4Minute book, 15 January 1991 - 14 December 1993
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Coc 124/5Minute book, 1 January 1994 - 1 June 1999
(1 volume)
Notices of meetings (Ref: CP/Coc 91, 107)Ref: CP/Coc 91Notice of Annual Parish Meeting on 13 March 1956
(1 paper, printed form)
Ref: CP/Coc 107Notice of parish council meeting to disucss the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act (1949), 12 April 1957
(1 paper, printed form)
Elected members (Ref: CP/Coc section 02)Declarations of acceptance of office (Ref: CP/Coc 98-106)Ref: CP/Coc 98-106Declarations of acceptance of office as chairman of Cockfield Parish Council, 1950 - 1954, 1959, 1961, 1962 and 1965
(9 papers, printed form)
Financial records (Ref: CP/Coc section 03)Receipt and payment books (Ref: CP/Coc 5-7, 79, 86)Ref: CP/Coc 5Receipts and payments book, 1895 - 1921
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Coc 6Receipts and payments book, 1922 - 1935
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Coc 7Receipts and payments book, 1936 - 1951
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Coc 79Accounts of receipts and payments for years ending 31 March 1952 - 31 March 1967
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: CP/Coc 86Accounts of receipts and payments under the Burial Acts, 1852 - 1906, for the years ending 31 March 1961 -31 March 1966
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Treasurers' books (Ref: CP/Coc 8)Ref: CP/Coc 8Treasurers' book, 1895 - 1940
(1 volume)
Register of loans (Ref: CP/Coc 9)Ref: CP/Coc 9Loan account register, 1896 - 1933
(1 volume)
Financial statements (Ref: CP/Coc 10-41, 92, 125/1-2)Ref: CP/Coc 10-41Financial statements 1923, 1925 - 1942, 1944 - 1955
(32 booklets)
Ref: CP/Coc 92Financial statement for year ending 31 March 1963
(1 paper, printed form)
Ref: CP/Coc 125/1Balance sheet, April 1995
Originally enclosed with CP/Coc 124/5
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: CP/Coc 125/2Balance sheet, 1995-96
Originally enclosed with CP/Coc 124/5
(1 paper, printed)
Other financial records (Ref: CP/Coc 88)Ref: CP/Coc 88Miscellaneous accounts, allotments, postage, burial ground etc, 1947 - 1958
(1 volume, disbound)
Rates (Ref: CP/Coc section 04)Precept books (Ref: CP/Coc 89-90)Ref: CP/Coc 89Precept book, 10 March 1927 - 11 March 1946
(1 volume, paper cover)
Ref: CP/Coc 90Precept book, 4 March 1947 - 9 March 1965
(1 volume, paper cover)
Correspondence (Ref: CP/Coc section 05)50-54, 59-60
Ref: CP/Coc 50-54Miscellaneous correspondence relating to: private street works, Victory celebrations (1946), allotments, electricity supply, burial ground, etc., 1882 - 1957
(5 files)
Ref: CP/Coc 59Copy letters, 1935 - 1946
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Coc 60Copy letters, 1938 - 1944
(1 volume)
Plans (Ref: CP/Coc section 06)Other plans (Ref: CP/Coc 66-67, 69, 77-78)Ref: CP/Coc 66-67Proposed library and institute, 1905
(2 plans)
Ref: CP/Coc 69Cockfield Quarry, n.d.
(1 plan)
Ref: CP/Coc 77North Eastern Electric Supply Co. Ltd., showing public street lighting, 1933
(1 plan)
Ref: CP/Coc 78Cockfield, County Engineer and Surveyor, 1947
(1 plan)
Ordnance Survey plans (Ref: CP/Coc 70-76)Ref: CP/Coc 70-72Ordnance Survey, sheet nos. XLVII.2, 3, 4, n.d.
Scale: 25.344" to 1 mile [1:2500]
(3 plans)
Ref: CP/Coc 73-76Ordnance Survey, sheet nos. XLI.SW, SE, NE, 1924
Scale: 6"to 1 mile [1:10560]
(4 plans)
Cemetery (Ref: CP/Coc section 07)Cockfield Cemetery was opened by Cockfield Burial Board in 1883
Registers of graves (Ref: CP/Coc 55-56)Ref: CP/Coc 55Register of graves, 1883 - 1907
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Coc 56Register of graves, 1907 - 1931
(1 volume)
Registers of burials (Ref: CP/Coc 57-58)Ref: CP/Coc 57Register of burials, 1883 - 1900
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Coc 58Register of burials, 1900 - 1913
(1 volume)
Plans (Ref: CP/Coc 61-65, 68)Ref: CP/Coc 61Cockfield burial ground, 1881
(1 plan)
Ref: CP/Coc 62Burial ground, 1882
(1 plan)
Ref: CP/Coc 63Cemetery showing grave spaces, 1882
(1 plan)
Ref: CP/Coc 64Toolhouse for cemetery, 1884
(1 plan)
Ref: CP/Coc 65New burial ground, n.d.
(1 plan)
Ref: CP/Coc 68Proposed cemetery, 1905
(1 plan)
Registers of fees (Ref: CP/Coc 80)Ref: CP/Coc 80Register of fees for the burial ground, 1910 - 1957
(1 volume, leather bound)
Grants of exclusive right of burial (Ref: CP/Coc 81-85)Ref: CP/Coc 81Grants of exclusive right of burial, 1 April 1930 - 6 July 1937
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: CP/Coc 82Grant of exclusive right of burial, 2 September 1941
(1 paper, printed form)
Ref: CP/Coc 83Grants of exclusive right of burial, 5 September 1944 - 7 September 1948
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: CP/Coc 84Grant of exclusive right of burial, 5 February 1952 - 8 January 1957
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: CP/Coc 85Grants of exclusive right of burial, 5 February 1957 - 4 June 1965
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Correspondence (Ref: CP/Coc 108-109)Ref: CP/Coc 108Letter from the Home Office, Whitehall, London, to Cockfield Burial Board, advising that the time fixed for closing the parish churchyard at Cockfield is to be extended to 31 August 1882, 5 May 1882
(1 paper)
Ref: CP/Coc 109Letter from the Home Office, Whitehall, London, advising that the time fixed for closing the parish churchyard of Cockfield should be extended to
1 January 1883, 4 November 1882
(1 paper)
Title deeds (Ref: CP/Coc 110)Ref: CP/Coc 11019 October 1883
(1) Rt. Hon. Claude Bowes, Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and John Bowes
(2) The Cockfield Burial Board
Conveyance of a piece of ground measuring 2r.7p. in the parish of Cockfield, [boundaries stated]
Plan of property endorsed
Consideration: £65 10s.
(parchment, 1 membrane)
New burial ground (Ref: CP/Coc 111)Ref: CP/Coc 111Form showing questions and replies concerning the provision of the new burial ground at Cockfield, n.d. [post 1900]
(1 paper)
Allotments (Ref: CP/Coc section 08)Registers (Ref: CP/Coc 42-44)Ref: CP/Coc 42Register of allotments, 1895 - 1903
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Coc 43Register of allotments, 1914 - 1922
(Including rents for 1922)
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Coc 44Register of allotments, 1926 - 1927
(1 volume)
Rent books (Ref: CP/Coc 45-49, 87)Ref: CP/Coc 45Allotment rent book, 1923 - 1925,
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Coc 46Allotment rent book, 1925 - 1927
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Coc 47Allotment rent book, 1928 - 1930
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Coc 48Allotment rent book, 1935 - 1939
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Coc 49Allotment rent book, 1940 - 1947
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Coc 87Allotments rent book, 1931 - 1934
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Title deeds (Ref: CP/Coc 112)Ref: CP/Coc 1129 June 1917
(1) Rt. Hon. Claude George, Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and Baron Bowes of Streatlam Castle
(2) Cockfield Parish Council
Lease from (1) to (2) of several closes of land in Cockfield (as shown in appended plan) for use as allotment gardens
Rent: £37 14s. 8d.
(1 file)
Village Green (Ref: CP/Coc section 09)Title deeds (Ref: CP/Coc113-120, 123)Ref: CP/Coc 1134 October 1949
(1) J.W. Cameron and Co., Ltd., Houndgate, Darlington, brewers
(2) Cockfield Parish Council
Agreement in which (1) agrees to pay to (2) a nominal sum in return for permission granted by (2) to (1) to repair and lay tarmacadam on the frontage of the Queen's Head, Cockfield, the said frontage being part of Cockfield village green
Plan attached
(2 papers)
Ref: CP/Coc 1141 April 1958
(1) Cockfield Parish Council
(2) Lawrence Corner, 35 Front Street, Cockfield
Agreement in which (1) allows (2) to lay down and form a crossing over that part of Cockfield village green which forms the frontage to property belonging to (2) at 35 Front Street, Cockfield
Plan attached
Consideration: 1s. per annum
(1 file)
Ref: CP/Coc 1151 December 1959
(1) Cockfield Parish Council
(2) Clarence Wade, 79 Front Street, Cockfield
Agreement in which (1) allows (2) to make up with tarmacadam, the frontage of his property at 79 Front Street, Cockfield, the said frontage forming part of Cockfield village green
Plan attached
Consideration: 1s. per annum
(3 papers)
Ref: CP/Coc 11628 March 1961
(1) Cockfield Parish Council
(2) J.W. Cameron and Co., Ltd.
Agreement in which (1) agrees to grant to (2) permission to make up as a hard standing a parcel of Cockfield village green and also to level a mound of earth (as shown in attached plan)
Plan attached
(2 papers)
Ref: CP/Coc 11719 July 1963
(1) Cockfield Parish Council
(2) Methodist Church of Cockfield
Copy agreement in which (1) allows (2) to make up and lay tarmacadam on the frontage of Cockfield Methodist Church, the said frontage forming part of the Cockfield village green
Consideration: 1s. per annum
(1 paper)
Ref: CP/Coc 1189 November 1965
(1) Cockfield Parish Council
(2) Thomas Smith Turnbull, Cockfield, garage proprietor, and Eric Watson, Cockfield, garage proprietor
Agreement in which (1) agrees to allow (2) to excavate part of Cockfield village green for the purposes of inserting two petrol pumps, and also to widen the entrance from a side road to the main road in Cockfield by taking off a corner of the village green
Plan attached
Rent: 15s. per annum
(1 file)
Ref: CP/Coc 1199 November 1966
(1) Cockfield Parish Council
(2) Durham County Council
Copy of a wayleave agreement concerning a route from Cockfield County Primary School (property of (2)) across Cockfield village green
(1 file)
Ref: CP/Coc 12019 April 1968
(1) Cockfield Parish Council
(2) Rev. Ronald Nevin of Cockfield
Deed of grant allowing the right of way of (2) over part of the village green in Cockfield for the purpose of access of (2) to his property, The Rectory, Cockfield
Plan attached
(1 file)
Ref: CP/Coc 123Copy declaration of Arnold Makepeace of Bishop Auckland, member of Cockfield Parish Council, concerning the title of the Parish Council to land adjoining 23 Coronation Terrace, Cockfield, 1995
Plan attached
(4 papers)
Cockfield Fell (Ref: CP/Coc section 10)121-122
Ref: CP/Coc 12128 November 1977
(1) Cockfield Field Reeves
(2) Cockfield Parish Council
Licence issued by (1) to (2) to use a piece of land forming part of Cockfield Fell as a car parking space, with plan
Plan attached
Consideration: £1
(1 file)
Ref: CP/Coc 122Draft licence as in CP/Coc 121
(1 file)
