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Bearpark Civil Parish

Reference: CP/BP Catalogue Title: Bearpark Civil Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Local Authority Records Description: 

Covering Dates: 1894-2003

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Bearpark Parish Council (Ref: CP/BP 1-20)

Bearpark was a tithe-free part of the Elvet township of Durham St. Oswald parish (which also included Old Durham, Elvet Barony, and Finchale) and a separate parish from 1879
- Elvet was part of Durham Poor Law Union 1834-1930
- Elvet was a civil parish in 1866
- Elvet was part of Durham Rural Sanitary District 1875-1894
- Elvet lost Finchale and was renamed Bearpark in 1894, with an elected council
- Bearpark lost the Durham St Oswald area (Old Durham and Elvet Barony) in 1895
- Bearpark was part of Durham Rural District 1894-1974
- Bearpark was part of Durham City District 1974-2009

Minutes (Ref: CP/BP 1-3, 20)

Minute book, 4 December 1894 - 5 August 1914
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Minute book, 6 July 1932 - 22 March 1955
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Minute book, 31 May 1955 - 16 October 1996
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Minute book, 20 November 1996 - 19 November 2003
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Financial records (Ref: CP/BP 4-6)

Account book, April 1946 - January 1970
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Account book, April 1970 - May 1994
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Register of mortgages and transfers, 1955 - 1970
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)

Street lighting (Ref: CP/BP 7-10, 18-19)

8 November 1955 (1) The Parish Council of Bearpark (2) The Public Works Loan Commissioners Copy mortgage by (1) to (2) of the revenues of the parish council, for securing a loan of £1,497 for improving the street lighting of the parish
(1 paper)


Consent, issued by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, for Bearpark Parish Council to borrow £3,478 to change the street lighting at Bearpark, 30 July 1969
(1 paper)


Application, submitted to the Public Works Loan Board by Bearpark Parish Council, for a loan of £3,478 to change the street lighting at Bearpark, 8 April 1970
(1 paper)


Assent, issued by the Public Works Loans Board, for a loan to Bearpark Parish Council, 13 April 1970
(1 paper)


20 April 1896 (1) The Bearpark Coal and Coke Company Ltd. (2) The Bearpark Parish Council Agreement whereby (1) undertakes to light the village of Bearpark and the road from the village with electric lights Details of provision given Consideration: £3 per lamp p.a.
(1 paper)


3 October 1937 (1) The Bearpark Coal and Coke Company, Ltd. (2 The Parish Council of Bearpark Agreement whereby (1) undertakes to light the village of Bearpark and the roads from the village with electric lights Consideration: £2 12s. 6d. p.a. for each lamp of 60 watts; £9 15s. for each lamp of 400 watts; £3 p.a. for each lamp of 40 watts; £1 13s. p.a. for each lamp of 25 watts Plan attached
(1 file)

Footpaths (Ref: CP/BP 11-16)

1 September 1909 (1) The Warden, Masters and Scholars of the University of Durham (2) The Parish Council of Bearpark Agreement whereby (1) lets to (2) a parcel of ground, (90 yds. x 6 ft.), as a footpath to a newly-erected footbridge over the river Browney Rent: 1 shilling p.a. Plan attached
(1 file)


Plan of proposed diversion of a footpath at Bearpark, stamped 'County Police Office, Durham', 12 September 1918
(1 plan, 80cm. x 56cm., waxed linen, colour-wash)


11 October 1938 (1) Bearpark Coal and Coke Co., Ltd. (2) The Parish Councils of Bearpark and Witton Gilbert Agreement whereby (2) is allowed to use the bridge belonging to (1) across the river Browney
(1 paper)


Letter from the Bearpark Coal and Coke Co., Ltd, Bearpark Colliery, Durham, to the Clerk to the Bearpark Parish Council, asking for permission to divert a road to provide more space for tipping, 26 September 1939 Plan attached
(1 paper; 1 plan, 24.5cm. x 27cm.)


22 April 1942 (1) Bearpark Coal and Coke Co. Ltd. (2) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England (3) The Parish Council for the Parish of Bearpark (4) The Parish Council for the Parish of Witton Gilbert Agreement for the stopping up of the footpath in Bearpark village, from the south-eastern end of Swan Street to a point three yards west of the level crossing of the Lanchester Branch of the North Eastern Railway; the making of a new footpath, from the north-western end of Swan Street to the said point three yards west of the railway; and the making of a new footpath, from the existing path in a north-easterly direction to a bridge over the river Browney, and thence to the existing footpath leading to Witton Gilbert and Bearpark Hall Farm Plan attached
(1 file)


Copy certificate of the stopping up of a footpath at Bearpark, 15 September 1942
(1 paper)

Records concerning the fire brigade (Ref: CP/BP 17)

(1) Broom Parish Council (2) Bearpark Parish Council Agreement whereby (1) and (2) will run a joint fire-brigade, (1) already possessing such a brigade
(1 paper)