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Parish magazine of the United Benefice of Upper Weardale, November 2013

Parish magazine of the United Benefice of Upper Weardale, January 2014

Parish magazine of the United Benefice of Upper Weardale, February 2014

Parish magazine of the United Benefice of Upper Weardale, March 2014

Parish magazine of the United Benefice of Upper Weardale, April 2014

Parish magazine of the United Benefice of Upper Weardale, May 2014

Parish magazine of the United Benefice of Upper Weardale, June 2014

Parish magazine of the United Benefice of Upper Weardale, July 2014

Parish magazine of the United Benefice of Upper Weardale, August 2014

Parish magazine of the United Benefice of Upper Weardale, September 2014

Parish magazine of the United Benefice of Upper Weardale, October 2014

Parish magazine of the United Benefice of Upper Weardale, November 2014

Parish magazine of the United Benefice of Upper Weardale, December 2014

The mid-Weardale group of churches parish magazine, January 1988

Notes on local events and the history of the parish: Local schools Biographical notes on the Leake family Statistical information on population and acreage Printed cutting of the 1881 Census for Weardale Union Newspaper cuttings concerning marriages in mother churches, 1882 List of books at Stanhope List of local expressions with their meanings Printed mileage table List of confirmation candidates, 23 September 1833 Rev. Mr. Clayton's memorandum on taking possession of the living and state of the rectory, 1865 Rector's note on the custom of giving gifts to children at New Year, the amount being £1 6s.6d. to 320 children on 1 January 1851 Account of the present value of the living of Stanhope, 1849 Notes on the plan for the division of the parish, 1849 List of endowed charities connected with parish and reports by the Charity Commissioners Mrs. Chapmans bequest Frosterley bequest Notes on bequests Lists of rectors and curates of Stanhope Texts in Stanhope Church, 14 February 1867 Measurement of rectory lands List of fixtures in the curacy house with their value Notes on the measurements of window frames Terrier of lands belonging to the parsonage of Stanhope Notes on Hartwell's School Notes on Westgate School Notes on Frosterly School Notes on Wearshed School Notes on Barrington Schools

Quotation from William Dresser and Sons, publishers, to Rev. Mr. Knighthall, for printing copies of the parish church booklet, 21 March 1950

Letter from J. Bannerman to Rev. Mr. Knighthall with suggestions for an alteration to the context of the booklet about the parish church, 25 February 1950

Typescript of a proposed booklet on Stanhope parish church, n.d. c.1950

Letter from Joseph Lingford and Son, Bishop Auckland, concerning a printing block of Stanhope church, 25 May 1950

Typescript copy of 'The Parish Church of Saint Thomas the Apostle, Stanhope' with marginal notes, n.d. c.1950

Typescript copy of a booklet on Stanhope Church with a list of blocks and acknowledgements, n.d. c.1950

Typescript copy of a booklet on Stanhope Parish Church, n.d. c.1950

Rough notes for a booklet on Stanhope Church, n.d. c.1950

Statement concerning the building of Thornley Chapel with a list of subscriptions, n.d. Endorsed: Thornley Oratory

Grant to Rev. W.N. Darnell of a plot of ground in Stanhope and the buildings on it for use as a Town Hall, court house, police station and lock-up, meeting rooms, and servants' accommodation, 26 March 1849

Minute book of the Stanhope Town Hall Committee, 27 February 1846 Attached: Rules for the management of Stanhope Town Hall, n.d. c. 1850

Minute book of the Town Hall and Police Station Building Committee, 1846 - 1861 Including: Notice of meeting to discuss the building of the Town Hall to be held on 4 March 1846 and resolutions made at that meeting Minutes of the Building Committee of Stanhope Town Hall including an undertaking by craftsmen about work to be done and its cost, 1846 Copy of the grant from the Bishop of Durham of a piece of land for the new Town Hall, 26 March 1849 Copy of a petition sent to the Bishop of Durham concerning the building of the Town Hall and Police Station Agreement of the adoption of the Borough's plan Building specification, 21 May 1864 Extract from Durham County Advertiser concerning Stanhope Police station ,12 April 1861 Extract from Durham County Advertiser concerning the chief constable's report, 12 April 1861 Article on architectural works in County Durham including Stanhope Police Station

Minutes of the Building Committee of Stanhope Town Hall and Police Station Including: printed copy of the rules for the management of Stanhope Town Hall (Enclosed in EP/St 13/1)

Copy grant by the Bishop of Durham of the right to hold a market weekly on a Friday, 25 August 1669

Copies of the charter for holding a fair and market at Stanhope made in years 1668 and 1709

Printed notice concerning Stanhope Market, 26 September 1800

Letter from the inhabitants of Stanhope to the Bishop of Durham concerning the re-opening of the market, with the reply giving the Bishop's permission, 3 October 1820

Plan showing the Park and pipes from tank, the positions of taps and roads, with measurements, near Mr. Rippon's land in Stanhope, n.d. c.1810

Notes on a camp in Stanhope Park called Parkhouse Pasture, n.d. c.1850

Copy of a lease of 1401 between Walter Skirlaw, bishop of Durham, and Roger Thornton of Newcastle to the latter to mine lead in Weardale for 12 years (with translation)

Letter from J. Smyth to Rev. Mr. Hardinge concerning lead tithe, a new master for Stanhope School and the decoration [of the curacy] 5 June 1787

Proposal by William Dent to lease ground within the manor of Holwick known as Ches for mining lead and other minerals from the Earl of Strathmore, allowing his Lordship 1/5 of the ore raised, 20 January 1810

Proposal by John Robinson, John Bland, Mr. Walton, Thomas Hindmarsh, Edward Simpson and Richard Robinson to lease land of the Earl of Strathmore for 21 years, paying him 1/5 of the lead ore raised, 20 January 1807

Statement by Mr. Bland of lead ore delivered from Close House, Birtle Hush, Green Mines and Lune Head, 1809

Account of lead ore weighed at lead mines at Limehead, Hundybeck and Closehouse, 1809 and 1810

Brief concerning Mr. Rippon's lead mine, 21 September 1808

Proposal of James Bayles to Charles Raine, to mine for lead on land of the Earl of Strathmore at Hunderthwaite Common, 24 January 1813

Petition of the proprietors and occupiers of land in Stanhope to the London Lead Company to raise the wages of miners and increase the Lent Money as the burden of poor rates is becoming unbearable, 7 October 1818 Includes a description of the condition of the miners and land-owners

Petition to Colonel and Lady Beaumont to increase employment for lead mines in Weardale, 1818

Copy demand issued on behalf of Richard Beaumont and W. Diana to the London Lead Company for damages in mining lead under certain copyhold lands belonging to Cuthbert Rippon of Stanhope, 29 July 1824

Letter from Walters and Ellison to Rev. Mr. Phillpotts concerning the case of the Bishop and Colonel Beaumont working lead near Stanhope smelt mill, 29 July 1824

Copy of letter from Messrs. Walters and Ellison [to Rev. Mr. Phillpotts] concerning an alleged encroachment on the mines of the Bishop by Mr. Rippon, 2 August 1824

Map showing lead workings at Stanhope, the Governor and Companys' Smelt Mill, property of T.R. Beaumont, Brownley Hill House, Paysmires, Noah's Ark, Hall Pasture, The Park, Grove Pasture, Low Shield Hirst, Reyhope Burn, Pasture Nook, Stanhope Burn, Hot Burn, modern workings, old workings, white ridge and 'old cast said to be boundary before freehold and copyhold', n.d. No scale

Notes on the production of English mines and introduction of a duty on lead ore, with list of questions concerning duties, n.d.

Acknowledgement by the London Lead Company of the payment of 6d. by Rev. Mr. Darnell for the use of a footpath across its land, 22 December 1842

Lead Miners and their Diseases ; a paper read at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association held at Newcastle-upon-Tyne by W. Robinson, M.O.H. to Stanhope U.D.C. and Weardale R.D.C., and surgeon to the London Lead Company, 1893

Plan of the Manors of Mickleton and Lune with a view of Holwick and Crostwaite Commons, n.d. c.1920

Names of persons applying for farms in 'the Highlands', n.d. c.1820

List of persons having status on Hunderthwaite Common, n.d.

Rules of the Weardale Savings Bank, 1864

Rules of the Local Stanhope Agricultural Lodge No.1463, of the Chapel District of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Manchester Unity Friendly Society, 1881

Stanhope Savings Bank Rules, 1896

Stanhope Saxhorn Band 'for the practice of sacred and secular music' Rules, 1896

'Further excavations at Cambokeels in Weardale' by E.J.W. Hildyard, offprint from Archaeologia Aeliana, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 4th series, volume xxvii

'Notes for a Guide to Weardale' and 'The Linns of Weardale a description of the district' by William Eggleston, n.d. c.1900

Blank form of declaration by a person entitled to a payment as a holder of an office, n.d. c.1900

Notes for a talk to Castle School and Womens Institute, 26 October 1949

Map of Stanhope area showing workhouse, Stanhope House, Queen's Head Inn, Newfield, well, and field boundaries

Plan showing the boundaries of Eastgate, Crawleyside and Stanhope, n.d. c .1810

Map showing the River Wear in Stanhope Bridge area, Horn Hall, Greenfoot House, Allerton Bridge, Stanhope Burn Bridge, Crag Nook, footpaths, field boundaries and numbers, 13 March 1882

Plan of an estate in the Newlandside Quarter belonging to Rev. William Nicholas Darnell, 1842 Scale: 1 inch to 4 chains [1:3168]

7 October 1756 (1) Humphrey Hopper of Redburn in Rookhope, gent (2) Robert Allgood of Allenheads in Allendale (Northumberland) gent., William Dawson of Bridgend in Stanhope, and Richard Dixon of Huntshead in Stanhope, yeoman Lease for 12 years of tenements known as Wolfcleugh and 130 stints in Rookhope known as Allendale Gates Rent £45 p.a. and £5 p.a. to the poor of Weardale Attached: Receipt for £5

Indenture between Humphrey Hopper and Robert Allgood, William Dawson and Richard Dixon, concerning the Wolfcleugh estate, 7 October 1756

Letter from J. Ward to George Bainbridge, Cowhope Close, complaining that no money for the poor has been received from the Wolfcleugh estate Attached: Receipt for £5 for the poor from the Wolfcleugh estate, 18 May 1770

Letter from J. Ward, Durham, to an unknown addressee, concerning the need to find title to the £5 charge on the Wolfcleugh estate, 5 March 1790

Schedule of the livestock that can be removed from the parish in case of invasion, giving names and residences of proprietors, number of livestock owned by each and acreage under cultivation, September 1801

Note of seven fox heads and six foulmarts caught by John Nattrass and note of 'Fox Head Drink 5s.0d', 1813

Letter from Walters, Ellison and Walters to Rev. Dr. Phillpotts concerning the boundaries between Mr. Rippons freehold and copyhold land and Williamson's opinion on the legal situation, 25 November 1824

Proposal of James Watson and Henry Millen concerning a plantation wall and for obtaining of stone from Wemmergill Beck Quarry, 8 August 1812

Proposal of John Pinkney to take a field at Longlands, 7 October 1812

Letter from James Allinson, Ettersgill Head, to the Earl of Strathmore containing a proposal for renting Longrigg Head Farm, 6 November 1813

Rent accounts for Parson Byers Farm for the half-year ending May-day, 1885

Copy of an Act of Parliament enabling the Bishop of Durham to let the place of Moormaster for 3 lives or 21 years, n.d. c.1668

Application, addressed to Rev. J.J. Pulleine, to owners, lessees and occupiers of lands to be taken by the Weardale and Shildon District Waterworks to make additional reservoirs and waterworks in the parish of Stanhope, 5 December 1901

Weardale Railway Centenary 1847 - 1947, preface by Sydney Walton

Statement of Thomas MacNay, Secretary to the Darlington Railway Committee of the North Eastern Railway Co. to Rev. Mr. Darnell offering to sell lands in the parish of Stanhope with a schedule of the land referred to

Copy from the Chancery Entry Book of Decrees and Orders concerning the Frosterley and Stanhope Railway Act, 1861, and copy of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, making provision for the payment of Rev. Mr. Darnell's costs and other monies, 28 November 1904

Letter from the Supreme Court Pay Office to the Bishop of Richmond, Stanhope Rectory, concerning dividends from the Frosterley Railway Company due to the latter as Rector of Stanhope, 1914

Bond to try John Westgarth for fraud, 1684

Petition of John Rain of Bishopwearmouth, farmer, a prisoner for debt in Durham gaol, to the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Durham as trustees of Dr. Hartwell's Charity, for help in the payment of his debts, endorsed with a petition of William Henderson of Hurworth, a prisoner in Durham gaol, to the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Durham as trustees of Thomas Wood's charity, of for help in payment of his debts, 27 March 1790

'Quaint Bits of Architecture from the Tyne, Wear and Tees', by W. Heatlie Containing pen and ink drawings of: a window in Barnard Castle; a house in Westergate, Barnard Castle; monastic buildings, Eggleston Abbey; details of buildings in Eggleston Abbey; Horsley Hall near Eastgate, Weardale; details of Horsley Hall; old thatched house in Stanhope; house at Frosterley; peel house, Eastgate, Weardale; window in Auckland Castle; Burn's House, Brusselton; house in Claypath, Durham; house at the corner of Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne; house at the corner of Percy Street; old houses, Westgate Road, Newcastle; Fox and Hounds, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle; wind mill, near Newcastle

Letters and notes concerning the drawings, 1926, 1927, 1928 Previously included in EP/St 14/23

Report of Ralph Day and William Myers, masons, following an inspection of Wemmergill Hall and recommending repointing and some interior plastering, 12 July 1811