Catalogue

Heighington Parish Council minutes, 1894 - 1948

Minutes of Heighington annual parish meetings and parish council meetings, 17 July 1947 - 19 March 1964

Minutes of Heighington annual parish meetings and parish council meetings, 19 March 1964 - 19 October 1972

Minutes, 1972-1989 Heighington annual parish meetings, 15 March 1973 - 13 April 1989 Heighington Parish Council meetings, 16 November 1972 - 17 November 1977

Minutes of Heighington Parish Council meetings, 19 January 1978 - 18 October 1979

Minutes of Heighington Parish Council meetings, 15 November 1979 - 19 February 1981

Minutes of Heighington Parish Council meetings, 19 March 1981 - 17 December 1981

Minutes of Heighington Parish Council meetings, 21 January 1982 - 19 May 1983

Minutes of Heighington Parish Council meetings (signed), 16 May 1985 - 14 December 1989

Parish Council meeting and annual meeting agendas, 25 May 1972 - 18 November 1993; 18 January - 21 November 1996

Reports of the chairman to Heighington Parish Council annual parish meetings, 1978 - 1989, 1991 - 1992

Heighington Parish Council receipt and payment book, 21 April 1962 - 19 March 1976

Heighington Parish Council receipts and payments book, 1 April 1976 - 31 March 1990

Copy annual financial report of the Parish Council, 1992/3

Copy annual financial report of the Parish Council, 1993/4

Copy annual financial report of the Parish Council, 1994/5

Copy annual financial report of the Parish Council, 1995/6

General correspondence of Heighington Parish Council, 7 July 1975 - 25 October 1979 Includes: papers concerning application for the closure of St. Michael's churchyard, 1977

General correspondence of Heighington Parish Council, 12 August 1979 - 23 May 1983

General correspondence of Heighington Parish Council, 17 June 1987 - 13 April 1989

Correspondence, marked 'information and advice', including reference to street lighting, design for the Parish Council Chairman's badge of office and proposals for the naming of streets, of Heighington Parish Council, 13 December 1966 - 18 March 1983

Correspondence, marked 'sundry', including letter concerning an offence committed during the election of councillors of Heighington Parish Council, 11 January 1991 - 13 January 1992

Copy out-letters of Heighington Parish Council, 22 March 1985 - 20 December 1989

Copy out-letters of Heighington Parish Council, 3 January - 18 December 1990

Copy out-letters of Heighington Parish Council, 30 November 1990 - 11 January 1991

Copy out-letters of Heighington Parish Council, 10 January - 17 December 1991

Copy out-letters of Heighington Parish Council, 28 January - 26 November 1992

Copy out-letters of Heighington Parish Council, 5 January - 19 November 1993

Copy out-letters of Heighington Parish Council, 24 January - 23 November 1994

Copy out-letters of Heighington Parish Council, 13 January - 29 August 1995

Correspondence and papers of Heighington Parish Council, concerning the change of Heighington Village postal address, and a British Telecom agreement for the placing of an underground cable, 20 July 1981 - 21 May 1982, 20 June 1985 - 7 February 1986

Correspondence of Heighington Parish Council with Durham County Council, mainly concerning planning matters, including the opencast coal site at Royal Oak Farm, Heighington, and the application for authorisation under the Opencast Coal Act, 1958 of the Hill Top Brusselton Opencast Coal Site (1986), and public rights of way over the same, 17 January 1978 - 2 September 1987

Correspondence of Heighington Parish Council with Durham County Council, 20 May 1986 - 26 October 1988

Correspondence of Heighington Parish Council with Durham County Council, including copy proposals for a drift mine at Redhouse, near Shildon, 28 November 1988 - 19 December 1989

Correspondence of Heighington Parish Council with Durham County Council, including planning papers for mining operations at Hawthorn House and Redhouse, Shildon, 18 May 1988 - 29 November 1990

Correspondence of Heighington Parish Council with Durham County Council, 17 June 1988 - 17 December 1991

Correspondence of Heighington Parish Council with Durham County Council, 9 January 1992 - 24 December 1993

Correspondence of Heighington Parish Council with Durham County Council, 24 September 1993 - 14 November 1994

Correspondence of Heighington Parish Council with Durham County Council, 13 January - 5 December 1995

Correspondence of Heighington Parish Council with Durham County Council County Engineer, concerning Heighington and Redworth village greens, footpaths, highways and maintenance, boundary change, and other matters, 18 April 1975 - 13 November 1987

Correspondence of Heighington Parish Council with the Borough of Darlington Borough Engineer, 31 July 1975 - 27 July 1984 Includes: plan of all sewers in verges or grassed areas at Heighington, n.d.

Correspondence of the Borough Engineer, Borough of Darlington, with Heighington Council, concerning Heighington relief sewers, 30 September 1975 - 21 September 1978

Correspondence of Heighington Parish Council with the Darlington Borough councillor for Heighington ward, 18 May 1987 - 18 June 1991

Parish Council correspondence, papers and duplicate plans concerning local planning proposals for opencast coal extraction at Newbiggin Farm and Royal Oak Farm, Heighington, also National Coal Board opencast coal extraction at Hill Top and Brusselton Heaps sites, and the Durham County Magnesium Limestone Escarpment Plan, 1 March 1977 - 27 October 1982

Parish Council correspondence and papers concerning planning appeals for Twinsburn Farm and Jubilee Trout Farm, Heighington, and copy correspondence of R. & A. Young Mining Limited, concerning proposed drift mine at Redhouse, near Shildon, 1 October 1985 - 6 June 1988

Correspondence, papers and plan from Durham County concerning planning application for change of use of the former Redworth Hall Residential School to a hotel, 11 May 1987

Correspondence of Heighington Parish Council concerning planning applications for Redworth Hall Hotel, 5 October 1989 - 28 June 1994

Dismissal by the Department of the Environment Planning Inspectorate of an appeal by Aberland Developments Limited against Darlington Borough Council's refusal of outline planning permission for residential development adjacent to Walworth Road and Snackgate Lane, Heighington, 16 January 1989

Correspondence of Heighington Parish Council concerning gas, electricity, water, sewerage and telecommunications services, 17 March 1975 - 22 February 1985

Counterpart plan of North Eastern Electricity Board to accompany a wayleave agreement dated 20 January 1972, and covering letter, 30 June 1988

Report to Darlington Rural District Council concerning planning and development in the Rural District, including an assessment of the future need for new housing, guidance on new development and village character, a detailed examination of the villages of Great Aycliffe, Heighington, Hurworth, Hurworth Place, Middleton One Row and Sadberge, and briefer comments on the remaining villages in the district, n.d.; with related correspondence, 24-31 July 1968

Heighington Lane Industrial Estate West Planning Policy Statement approved by Sedgefield District Council and Darlington Borough Council, October 1990

Correspondence of Heighington Parish Council concerning land for a burial ground extension, and the improvement of the village play area, 6 October 1983 - 10 February 1985

2 May 1990 (1) United Automobile Services Ltd., of Darlington (2) Heighington Parish Council Agreement for the transfer of ownership to (2) of the bus shelter on Heighington Village Green Consideration: £1007.40 to (2)

Correspondence of Heighington Parish Council concerning the repair, and transfer to parish council ownership, of the bus shelter on Heighington village green, 19 December 1989 - 2 May 1990

Letter from John Booth to Rev. C.C. Chevallier, Heighington Vicarage, Darlington, concerning appointment of a grieve, his duties and wages, 5 April 1883

Letter from John Booth, Copyhold Office, Durham, to Rev. W.H.G. Stephens, Heighington, concerning placing poles on side of road, management of village green and duties of grieve, 15 March 1887

Letter from [W.H.G. Stephens], Heighington Vicarage, Darlington, to John Booth, Durham, concerning appointment of grieve and list of copyholders, 29 March 1890

Letter from John Booth, Copyhold Office, Durham, to Rev. W.H.G. Stephens, Heighington Vicarage, Darlington, concerning appointment of grieve, 1 April 1890

Notice of public meeting of inhabitants to appoint grieve and deputy grieve, 12 April 1890

Extract from minutes of meeting of ratepayers concerning appointment of Captain R.J. Blacklin as grieve, 16 April 1890

Letter (and draft) from W.H.G. Stephens concerning appointment of grieve and deputy grieve, 21 April 1890

Letter from John Booth, Copyhold Office, Durham to Rev. W.H.G. Stephens, Heighington Vicarage, concerning duties of grieve and appointment of deputy, 24 April 1890

Letter (and draft) from W.H.G. Stephens concerning election of grieve, 3 July 1890

Letter from John Booth, Copyhold Office, Durham, to Rev. W.H.G. Stephens, Heighington Vicarage, Darlington, concerning appointment of village grieve, 17 July 1890

Letter from C. Dyson, The Vicarage, Heighington, concerning meeting to consider appointment of village grieve, 4 June 1897

Extract from minutes of meeting of commoners concerning appointment of Captain Blacklin as grieve, 8 June 1897

Letter from Ecclesiastical Commission, Halmote Court Office, New Exchequer Buildings, Durham, to R.J. Blacklin, Heighington, concerning his appointment as grieve, 4 September 1897

Letter from G.Y. Wall, Manorial Surveyor's Office, New Exchequer Buildings, Durham, to Rev. H.G. Stephens, The Vicarage, Heighington, concerning complaints and jurisdiction of manor court, 23 April 1887

Letter from J.B. Mander, Copyhold Office, Durham, to Rev. W.H.G. Stephens, Heighington Vicarage, Darlington, acknowledging his letter, 4 July 1890

Letter from Thomas Jones, Archdeaconry Registry, Durham, to Rev. W.H.G. Stephens, concerning churchwardens producing declaration at court, 22 September 1890

Letter from Thomas Jones, Archdeaconry Registry, Durham, to Mr. Stephens, concerning admission of churchwardens into office, 24 September 1890

Letter from John Bellwood, Clerk to the Parish Council, Heighington to Captain Blacklin, Dinsdale House, West Hartlepool, concerning meeting of commoners to consider application of Parish Council to Ecclesiastical Commissioners for control of village green, 26 May 1897

Letter from village grieve to G.Y. Wall, Copyhold Office, Durham, concerning control of village green, 14 June 1897

Notes re change in government of village green, n.d. [1897]

Letter from R.O. Golightly, Clerk to the Parish Council, Heighington, to Messrs. Charles Knight and Co., concerning lease of village green from Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 9 May 1912

Letter from Ecclesiastical Commission to R.O. Golightly, Clerk to the Parish Council, Heighington, concerning lease of village green, 3 June 1912

Correspondence between R.J. Blacklin, Brougham House, West Hartlepool, grieve and G.Y. Wall, Halmote Court Office, New Exchequer Buildings, Durham, concerning encroachment on village green, 19 June - 13 August 1909

Local Government Act, 1894: Model Bye-Laws as to Heighington Village Green, for the use of the Parish Council, Darlington, 1913

Notice of listing of the Village Pump, The Green, Heighington, as a building of special architectural or historic interest, 6 April 1967

Correspondence of Heighington Parish Council concerning the provision of a playing field and play area at Heighington, 1 March 1967 - 19 December 1986

Reports on Heighington annual playschemes, 1974-1977

Correspondence of Heighington Parish Council concerning revitalisation works to housing at Hopelands, Heighington, carried out by Darlington Borough Council's Department of Community Services, 25 September - 5 November 1990 Includes: photographs of house interiors and exteriors during improvement work

24 December 1952 (1) The North Eastern Electricity Board (2) The Parish Council of Heighington Agreement for the maintenance and supply of electricity to a public lighting installation at Heighington and Redworth

18 September 1958 (1) Hugh Abram of No. 1 Darlington Road, Heighington (2) Heighington Parish Council Agreement for the erection of a street lighting bracket on No. 1 Darlington Road

3 April 1962 (1) R.J.S. Harrison of Hunter House, Market Place, Bishop Auckland (2) Heighington Parish Council Agreement for the erection of a street lighting bracket on Hunter House, Heighington

Papers concerning the annual participation of Heighington and Redworth in the Durham County Tidy Village Competition and the Northumbria in Bloom competition, [July] 1977 - July 1988

Correspondence concerning the Northumbria in Bloom competition, and photograph of the presentation of a Regional Competition Award of Merit to Heighington as runner up in the Best Large Village category, 1991

Map showing public rights of way (footpaths, bridleways and public paths) in the parish of Heighington, under the provisions of the National Parks & Access to the Countryside Act, 1949, marked on Ordnance Survey sheets XLII.SE,SW; XLIII.SW; XLVIII.NE,NW,SE; and XLIX.NW, provisional edition, 1951 Scale: 1 : 10560

Map showing footpaths in the parish of Heighington, marked on Ordnance Survey sheets NZ 22 SW and SE, 1953, n.d. [ 1970s] Scale: 1 : 10560

Map showing the boundary of Heighington Conservation Area as designated by the Civic Amenities Act, 1967, September 1971 No scale

Map showing the boundary of Heighington Conservation Area as designated on 3 February 1972, by the Chief Planning Officer of the Borough of Darlington, 7 June 1976 Scale: 1 : 2500

Map showing the polling districts, as fixed in November 1977, in the Borough of Darlington, of those wards lying within the county constituency of Bishop Auckland, 1977 Scale: 1 : 50000

Map of the area designated under the Aycliffe New Town (Designation) Amendment Order, 1974, prepared by the Department of the Environment from Ordnance Survey published sheets, 1974 Scale: 1 : 10560

Plan and specification for Redworth public lighting installation work carried out by Bishop Auckland District, 5 November 1937 - 1 September 1952 Scale: 1 : 2500

Plans showing the location of street lighting units at Heighington and Redworth for adoption by Durham County Council, marked on Ordnance Survey plans NZ 2423, NZ 2523, NZ 2422 and NZ 2522, 1 October 1971 - 1 November 1972 Scale: 1 : 2500

Layout plan of Heighington relief sewers project, by Darlington Borough Engineer's Department, July 1977 Scale: 1 : 500

Heighington Parish Council, 1895 - 1966, by A.I. Abram, B.A., April 1982

Parish Council newsletters to parishioners, c. December 1982 - November 1983