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Cornforth Civil Parish

Reference: CP/Co Catalogue Title: Cornforth Civil Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Local Authority Records Description: 

Covering Dates: 1868-2005

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Cornforth Parish Council (Ref: CP/Co 1-66)

Cornforth was a township of Bishop Middleham parish, and a separate parish from 1865
- part of Sedgefield Poor Law Union 1834-1930
- a civil parish in 1866, with an elected council from 1894
- part of Sedgefield Rural Sanitary District 1875-1894
- part of Sedgefield Rural District 1894-1974
- part of Sedgefield District 1974-2009

Minutes (Ref: CP/Co section 01)

1-3, 19, 21, 23, 64-66


Council minutes, 1931 - 1934
(1 volume)


Council minutes, 1934 - 1937
(1 volume)


Council minutes, 1937 - 1944
(1 volume)


Cornforth Parish Council minute book, 3 February 1958 - 7 July 1969
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Cornforth Parish Council minute book, 11 August 1969 - 7 November 1983
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Cornforth Parish Council minute book, 5 December 1983 - 1 November 1993
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Copy minutes (Ref: CP/Co 25-30)

This collection also includes unsigned copy minutes. These have been retained because they have been annotated and contain correspondence and reports relating to Parish Council business.


Cornforth Parish Council minutes, 14 May 1984 - 2 February 1987
(2 files)


Cornforth Parish Council minutes, 3 February 1992 - 5 October 1992, 6 February - 6 November 1995
(177 papers)


Cornforth Parish Council minutes, 6 November 1995 - 7 April 1997
(2 files)


Minute book, signed, of Cornforth Parish Council, 6 December 1993 - 3 November 1997
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Minutes, signed, of Cornforth Parish Council, 1 December 1997 - 2 December 2002
(1 file)


Minutes, signed, of Cornforth Parish Council, 13 January 2003 - 5 December 2005
(1 file)

Declarations of Acceptance of Office (Ref: CP/Co section 02)

20, 22, 24


Declarations of acceptance of office as councillor for Cornforth Parish Council, 2 June 1958 - 2 November 1970
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Declarations of acceptance of office as councillor for Cornforth Parish Council, 3 May 1971 - 5 April 1993
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Declarations of acceptance of office as councillor for Cornforth Parish Council, 13 May 1991 - 5 July 1993
(17 papers)

Parish officers (Ref: CP/Co section 03)

49-51


29 April 1927 (1) William Pease of Coxhoe (2) National and Local Government Officers' Mutual Assurance Association (3) Cornforth Parish Council Bond in £100 of (1) and (2) to (3) for the faithful performance of duties as Parish Clerk
(1 paper)


30 October 1928 (1) William Pease of Coxhoe (2) National and Local Government Officers' Mutual Assurance Association (3) Cornforth Parish Council Bond in £100 of (1) and (2) to (3) for the faithful performance of duties as Parish Clerk
(1 paper)


16 March 1938 (1) Arthur Macdonald of Newcastle upon Tyne (2) The Co-operative Wholesale Society (3) Cornforth Parish Council Bond in £250 of (1) and (2) to (3) for the faithful performance of duties as Treasurer
(1 paper)

Financial records (Ref: CP/Co section 04)

4-7, 46-48


Receipts and payments ledgers, 1949 - 1951
(1 volume)


Receipts and payments ledgers, 1951 - 1953
(1 volume)


Receipts and payments ledgers, 1953 - 1955
(1 volume)


General accounts, 1942 - 1949
(1 volume)


Cornforth Parish Council receipt and payment book, 1 April 1971 - 7 March 1977
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


Cornforth Parish Council receipt and payment book, 17 January 1977 - 24 March 1982
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


Cornforth Parish Council receipt and payment book, 25 September 1990 - 14 January 1994
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)

Correspondence (Ref: CP/Co section 05)

8-18, 31-45


Correspondence, etc., c.1920's - 1950's
(10 files and packets)


L.N.E.R. extension, 1928 - 1929
(1 plan)


Cornforth Parish Clerk correspondence file concerning agreements relating to the provision of gas, electricity, insurance, street lighting, wayleaves, footbridges, etc., for Cornforth Parish Council, 9 December 1925 - 19 November 1975
(1 file)


Cornforth Parish Clerk correspondence file concerning the repair and diversion of footpaths, and the provision of gas, water and street lighting, 4 December 1933 - 30 March 1981
(71 papers)


Cornforth Parish Clerk correspondence file concerning the building of a footbridge over the railway line between Ferryhill and West Cornforth, 13 April 1948 - 22 June 1962
(3 files)


Cornforth Parish Clerk correspondence file concerning local elections, the purchase of land by the Northumbrian Water Authority, the removal of a bus shelter, and the Parish Council's title to land in West Cornforth, 9 May 1961 - 12 May 1987 (predominantly 25 March 1977 - 1 November 1984)
(24 papers)


Cornforth Parish Clerk correspondence file including Labour Party matters, NALGO pension news leaflets, and letters concerning local government reform, December 1983 - 29 January 1993
(65 papers)


Cornforth Parish Clerk correspondence file including planning application for excavation at Thrislington Quarry, new election rules, housing and planning rules, car parking, footpaths, and privatisation plans, 10 August 1984 - 3 April 1992
(125 papers)


Application by Redland Aggregates to work Rough Furze Quarry, June 1993
(1 booklet)


Conditions required before Durham County Council will allow extraction at Rough Furze Quarry, 12 July 1993
(6 papers)


Application for planning permission by Redland Aggregates to build a fuel storage tank facility at Thrislington Quarry, 13 - 19 October 1993
(16 pages)


Application for determination of conditions on Interim Development Order permission at Cornforth Quarry, 7 - 12 April 1994
(1 booklet)


Cornforth Parish Clerk correspondence file including repairs to a vandalised wall and underpass, Chairman's allowances, street lighting, Cornforth Quarry, and rights of way, 13 November 1996 - 25 February 1997
(26 papers)


Proposals by Tarmac Econowaste to restore Cornforth Quarry by landfill, n.d.
(1 booklet)

Property (Ref: CP/Co section 06)

49-59


30 November 1953 (1) Church Commissioners (2) Sedgefield Rural District Council Conveyance of 2.44a. of land in West Cornforth Consideration: £110
(Parchment, 3 membranes)


Abstract of title, 6 November 1868, of Church Commissioners to 214a.20p. of land in Cornforth, reciting deed, 1953
(7 papers)


Acknowledgement by the Central Land Board, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, that it has recovered £104 4s.3d. from Sedgefield Rural District Council concerning the acquisition of the freehold interest in land in West Cornforth, 29 July 1955
(1 paper)


Letter from the Ministry of Housing and Local Government to Sedgefield Rural District Council giving consent to the sale of 2.44 a. of land in West Cornforth, 25 October 1956
(1 paper)


Plan, attached to the above letter, illustrating the land to be sold in West Cornforth, 25 October 1956
(1 plan, waxed linen, 20.5 cm. x 19 cm., coloured)


22 February 1957 (1) Sedgefield Rural District Council (2) Cornforth Parish Council Conveyance of 2a.1r.31p. of land in West Cornforth Consideration: £250
(Parchment, 1 membrane)


27 October 1961 (1) Sedgefield Rural District Council (2) Cornforth Parish Council Conveyance of 1,525 sq yds of land in West Cornforth Consideration: 185 sq yds of land in West Cornforth
(Parchment, 1 membrane)


16 July 1979 (1) A. V. Martin of Tursdale (2) Cornforth Parish Council Deed of grant of right to lay a waterpipe across the land of (1) Consideration: £40
(1 paper)

Printed material (Ref: CP/Co section 07)

60-61


Local Council Review , volume 36, number 1, Summer 1985; volume 49, number 3, July 1997
(2 booklets)

Microfilm copies of records (Ref: CP/Co section 08)

62/1-3, 63/1-3


Microfilm of Cornforth parish records -CP/Co 19-25
(1 negative microfilm)


Microfilm of Cornforth parish records -CP/Co 26-35
(1 negative microfilm)


Microfilm of Cornforth parish records -CP/Co 36-61
(1 negative microfilm)


Master jacketed microfilm of Cornforth parish records -CP/Co 19-25
(106 microfilm jackets)


Master jacketed microfilm of Cornforth parish records -CP/Co 26-35
(105 microfilm jackets)


Master jacketed microfilm of Cornforth parish records -CP/Co 36-61
(81 microfilm jackets)