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Staindrop in Durham County England History and GeographySTAINDROP, a parish in the south-western division of DARLINGTON ward, county palatine of DURHAM, comprising the market town of Staindrop, and the townships of Hilton, Langley-Dale with Shotton, Raby with Keverstone, Wackerfield, and Woodland, and containing 2047 inhabitants, of which number, 1273 are in the town of Staindrop, 5½ miles (N.E. by E.) from Barnard-Castle, and 244 (N.N.W.) from London. This place, formerly called also Stainthorp, or the stony town, is of great antiquity, having been granted by King Canute, who had a mansion at Raby, in this parish, to the monastery at Durham. The town is pleasantly situated in a valley, and consists chiefly of one long well-built street. Here is a subscription library and news-room. In Langley-dale are very extensive works for smelting lead-ore. A weekly market on Saturday, and fairs annually on the Vigil of St. Thomas the Martyr and the two following days, were granted in 1378, by Bishop Hatfield, which, after a time, fell into disuse, but the market has been revived, and is well supplied with provisions. The magistrates hold petty sessions every alternate Saturday; and a court leet and court baron for the lordship of Raby are held at Michaelmas by the lord of the manor, at which constables are sworn in at the former, and debts under 40s. are recoverable at the latter: the jurisdiction extends over the other townships in the parish. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the rectory of Cockfield, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Durham, endowed with £400 royal bounty, and £400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Marquis of Cleveland. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, was formerly collegiate: it is a handsome structure, exhibiting portions in the early, decorated, and later styles of English architecture, with a square embattled tower rising from the centre, and contains some ancient and handsome monuments. The Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyan Methodists, and Presbyterians, have each a place of worship here. A charity school, for the education of thirty poor children, is endowed with £15 per annum, arising from land left by Mr. Granger. A collegiate establishment was founded here, in the reign of Henry IV., by Ralph Nevill, Earl of Westmorland, in honour of the Virgin Mary, for a master, six priests, six clerks, six decayed gentlemen, six poor officers, and other poor men: its revenue at the dissolution was estimated at £170. 4. 6. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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