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Shadforth Civil Parish

Reference: CP/Sha Catalogue Title: Shadforth Civil Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Local Authority Records Description: 

Covering Dates: 1911-1983

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Shadforth Parish Council (Ref: CP/Sha 1-73)

Shadforth was a township of Pittington parish (and a separate parish from 1841)
- part of Durham Poor Law Union 1834-1930
- a civil parish in 1866, with an elected council by 1911
- part of Durham Rural Sanitary District 1875-1894
- part of Durham Rural District 1894-1974
- part of Durham City District 1974-2009

Minutes (Ref: CP/Sha 1-6, 66-71)

Council minutes, 1911 - 1923
(1 volume)


Council minutes, 1923 - 1927
(1 volume)


Council minutes, 1927 - 1931
(1 volume)


Council minutes, 1932 - 1937
(1 volume)


Council minutes, 1937 - 1946
(1 volume)


Minutes of meetings with related notices, reports and correspondence, 24 January 1969 - 19 June 1973
(1 file)


Minute book, 17 September 1946 - 6 July 1960
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Minute book, 30 August 1960 - 2 April 1974
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Minute book, 30 April 1974 - 29 March 1977
(1 file)


Minute book, 28 April 1977 - 27 March 1979
(1 file)


Minute book, 24 April 1979 - 13 March 1981
(1 file)


Minute book, 6 April 1981 - 16 May 1983
(1 file)

Elected members (Ref: CP/Sha 7-9)

Declarations of acceptance of office of parish councillors, 15 April 1919 - 25 May 1976
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Record of payments to members 10 July 1956 - 1 September 1967
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Results of Parish Council elections 1967, 1970
(4 papers, 1 file)

Parish officers (Ref: CP/Sha 10)

Names and addresses of Parish Council clerks, n.d. [1970]
(1 file)

Financial records (Ref: CP/Sha 11-16, 63-64)

General receipt and payment book, 31 March 1948 - 31 March 1958
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


Precepts upon rating authority for expenses 16 March 1954 - 31 March 1964
(1 booklet)


General receipt and payment book, 1 April 1958 - 2 October 1968
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


General accounts re wages and expenditure, 25 October 1965 - 1976
(2 files, 147 papers)


Deposit account book with Co-op bank, 4 October 1967 - 8 July 1972
(1 booklet)


Returns of income and expenditure, 31 March 1970 - 31 March 1972
(3 papers)


Financial statements of the Council for the years ending 31 March 1966 - 31 March 1968
(3 papers, printed form)


Estimates and comparative expenditure figures, 1972/3 - 1975/6
(1 file, typescript)

Street lighting (Ref: CP/Sha 35-40)

Receipt and payment book, re lighting, 31 March 1948 - 24 February 1976
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


Correspondence and accounts re street lighting agreement, 13 - 17 September 1948
(1 file)


Correspondence, accounts and papers re street lighting,31 March 1967 - 28 August 1973
(107 papers, 15 files)


Scheme for street lighting, July 1971
(1 booklet)


Plan of public lighting at Ludworth Colliery, n.d. Scale: 25" to 1 mile [1:2500]
(1 plan, 52 cm x 73 cm, duplicated)


Plan of Shadforth P.C. public lighting at Shadforth and Sherburn Hill, n.d. No scale
(1 plan, 120 cm x 71 cm, duplicated)

Public rights of way (Ref: CP/Sha 41, 47, 50)

Correspondence re West Farm footpaths, parish of Shadforth, 26 June 1939 - 18 August 1939
(1 file)


Plan of footpath from Shadforth to Cassop Smithy across West Farm, Shadforth, with covering letter, 28 November 1941 Scale: 25" to 1 mile [1:2500]
(1 plan, 20 cm x 16 cm, waxed linen, ink and 1 paper)

Correspondence files (Ref: CP/Sha 41-49, 59-61)

Correspondence re playing fields, 7 June 1967 -16 April 1974
(4 files, 65 papers)


Correspondence and papers re telephone facilities at Ludworth and village improvements at Shadforth, 14 September 1970 - 3 December 1972
(32 papers, 4 files)


General correspondence re village green, Shadforth cemetery, burial fees, Ludworth memorial, garage sites and speed limits, 8 May 1968 - 2 October 1977
(184 papers, 18 files)


Correspondence re tidy village, 23 April 1969 - 29 May 1972
(1 file)


Correspondence re public footpaths within the parish of Shadforth, 22 August 1969 - 26 March 1974
(33 papers, 3 files)


Licence to erect a public convenience on land at Ludworth in the township of Shadforth, 22 August 1928
(parchment, 2 membranes)


Agreement between Shadforth parish council and Sherburn parish council re common burial ground, 9 March 1937
(1 paper)


Correspondence, plans and notices concerning land at Lynn Terrace, Wheatley Hill, encroachments on open space, rights of way etc., 27 May 1977 - 5 December 1979
(1 file)


Circulars from the Department of the Environment, the National Association of Parish Councils and others, with miscellaneous plans, relating to local government reorganisation and opposition to aspects of it, 16 February 1971 - 16 April 1973
(1 file)


Response of Shadforth Parish Council to the Durham County Structure Plan, 25 March 1975
(2 papers, typescript)

Planning matters (Ref: CP/Sha 42, 51-52, 54-56, 62)

Correspondence and papers re quarrying at Crime Rigg Quarry, Shadforth, 1 December 1948 - 31 July 1973
(13 papers, 6 files)


Plan showing area worked at Crime Rig Quarry, 6 January 1970 No scale
(1 plan, 80 cm x 40 cm, duplicated)


Application for planning permission re extension to shop for storage of goods, Ushaw Street, Ludworth, 11 September 1974
(1 file)


Plan of Shadforth survey by J.R. Atkinson, County Planning Officer, April 1970 Scale: 10.56 feet to 1 mile [1:500]
(1 plan, 95 cm x 31 cm, duplicated)


Plan of landscape of Shadforth village, 8 June 1972 Scale: 10.56 feet to 1 mile [1:500]
(1 plan, 104 cm x 60 cm, ink)


Plan of landscape proposals for Shadforth village, September 1972 Scale: 10.56 feet to 1 mile [1:500]
(1 plan, 85 cm x 59 cm, duplicated)


Plans of landscape proposals for Shadforth village, prepared by the County Planning Officer, September 1972 - October 1979
(4 plans)

Plans (Ref: CP/Sha 53-58)

Plan of closure of part of road C60 in Shadforth under the Highways Act 1959, Section 108, n.d. Scale: 25" to 1 mile [1:2500]
(1 plan, 33 cm x 20 cm, duplicated)


Plan of revised position of pavilion, n.d. No scale
(1 plan, 33 cm x 20 cm, duplicated)


Plan of [parish boundaries of Shadforth], n.d. No scale
(1 plan, 33 cm x 20 cm, duplicated)

County Durham Association of Parish and Town Councils (Ref: CP/Sha 65)

Miscellaneous reports, minutes and accounts of the Durham Association of Parish and Town Councils and of its Executive Committee, 31 July 1976 - 10 November 1979
(1 file)

Shadforth and Sherburn Joint Burial Committee (Ref: CP/Sha 17-34, 72-73)

Shadforth Cemetery opened in 1943, Sherburn Cemetery in 1958
see CP/She for further records


Receipt and payment book of Joint Burial Committee, 31 March 1938 - 25 March 1975
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Receipt book for burial fees 15 April 1946 - 29 March 1958
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Receipt book of burial committee, 17 February 1956 - 6 January 1969
(1 volume, cloth-bound)


Receipt book for burial fees, 7 April 1956 - 15 April 1970
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Receipt book of burial committee, 28 March 1957 - 6 February 1968
(1 volume, cloth-bound)


Receipts re grave spaces, 4 April 1958 - 24 May 1968
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Receipt book for burial fees, 20 May 1970 - 22 May 1971
(1 volume, cloth-bound)


Accounts of payments and wages of Joint Burial Committee, 5 February 1969 - 25 June 1973
(65 papers)


Financial statement for Sherburn and Shadforth Joint Burial board, 1976 - 1977
(1 paper)


Correspondence re table of fees for Shadforth Burial Ground, 10 September 1942
(1 file)


Correspondence re consecration of extension to Shadforth Burial Ground, 1 April 1943 - 22 August 1958
(1 file)


Correspondence and papers re burial fees and accounts and erection of monuments, 28 April 1965 - 14 May 1973
(96 papers, 5 files)


Abstract of title, of Dorman, Long & Co. Ltd., to 1 acre of land at Shadforth contracted to be sold to Shadforth and Sherburn Joint Burial Committee, 1942
(1 file)


General specifications for new burial ground, n.d.
(1 booklet)


Plan of amended general layout of Shadforth and Sherburn Joint Burial Committee new burial ground, n.d. Scale: 40 feet to 1 inch [1:480]
(1 plan, 38 cm x 23 cm, waxed linen, ink)


Plan showing grave spaces for new burial ground for Shadforth and Sherburn Joint Burial Committee, n.d. Scale: 16 feet to 1 inch [1:192]
(1 plan, 45 cm x 32.5 cm, duplicated)


Plan of amended general layout of Shadforth and Sherburn Joint Burial Committee new burial ground, n.d. Scale: 40 feet to 1 inch [1:480]
(1 plan, 36 cm x 20 cm, waxed linen, ink)


Plan of general layout of Shadforth and Sherburn Joint Burial Committee new burial ground, n.d. Scale: 40 feet to 1 inch [1:480]
(1 plan, 38 cm x 20 cm, waxed linen, ink)


Minute book of the Shadforth and Sherburn Joint Burial Committee, 29 June 1937 - 4 November 1974 [the Joint Burial Committee ceased to exist, 1975/6]
(1 volume, calf bound)


Financial statements of the Joint Burial Committee for the years ending, 31 March 1973 - 31 March 1975
(2 booklets, 1 paper, printed form)