Your village milestones
| COXHOE THROUGH TIME | |
| 2,300-700BC BRONZE AGE | |
| Bronze Age axe found on Garmondsway Moor | |
| 700BC-AD43 IRON AGE | |
| 700BC- AD43 | Iron Age round house at West House and East House in Coxhoe |
| AD43-410 ROMAN BRITAIN | |
| Cades Road passes Coxhoe underneath A177 | |
| 410-1066 SAXON & VIKING PERIODS | |
| AD883 | Danish King Guthred of York gave the monks royal authority in the Tyne & Tees region. |
| 1066-1550AD MEDIEVAL PERIOD | |
| 1066-1550 | Medieval village near Coxhoe Hall |
| 1183 | Bishop Pudsey of Durham granted Garmondsway Moor and some land at Raisby as an endowment to his hospital for lepers at Sherburn |
| 1183 | Bolden book, a survey of the Durham Bishopric lands |
| C1200 | De Coxhoe family |
| 1230 | Walter de Audre knight gave Coxhoe Mill to Finchale Priory in order to provide a monk to pray for his soul. His daughter marries William de Lumley. |
| 1235 | Coxhoe owned by Monks of Finchale. Cornmill on Coxhoe Beck south of Coxhoe Wood |
| C1245 | William Trussebot of Brownston was granted the manor of Coxhoe by William the Conqueror. |
| C1300 | John de Denum, Knight coal mining lease from the Bishop 1327. Died 1328 seized of half Coxhoe. Parts held by the Lumleys |
| 1327 | William de Aryemynne Knight petitions Edward II for payment when he had wrongly seized of his manor of Coxhoe which was given to him by Bishop of Durham. |
| 1396 | William Blakiston, Knight was granted Coxhoe and Blakiston lands held of the Prior (to rent) for his military service. 29 Nov 1396 |
| 1418 | William Blakison Knight died, passing Coxhoe village, Manor House to brother Nicholas. Water mill & toft property of Finchale. |
| 1427/8 | Finchale Benedicine Priory opened up Coxhoe Pit, made profit for 3 years. |
| 1432 | Coxhoe had 14 houses with land and 20 Cottages. |
| 1495 | Lime quarrying. |
| 1536 | William Blakiston, ancestor of Blakiston’s of Gibside and Shieldrow was given Coxhoe for life after his father’s death. He died 1561 and was buried in Kelloe in Ladye Porch (Thornley Porch) where his ancestors are buried. |
| 1536 | The Jurisdiction of Liberties Act wiped away the privileges connected to the office of Bishop of Durham, thus sounding the death nell of Prince Bishops. Major county families, Nevilles, Hyltons, Lumleys, Bowes & Tempests, all play part in Pilgrimage of Grace demanding restoration of the liberties of the Palatine. |
| 1550-1750AD POST-MEDIEVAL PERIOD | |
| 1621 | Mary Blakiston, heiress of Christopher Blakiston in her right of Coxhoe. She married William Kennett Esq, son and heir of Sir William Kennett of Sellenge in Kent. Their grandson Nicholas Kennet Esq d. 1715 having only daughter Mary Kennett. |
| 1644 | Plague in Durham To died in Cornforth, 1 died in Sedgefield. |
| 1695 | Small scale mining |
| 1714 | Mary Kennett became 2nd wife of Kenneth Earl & titular Marquis of Seaforth of Scotland. Married in Kelloe Church. Coxhoe formed the core of the Kennett family holdings. Hearth tax records say Kennett’s had 14 hearths in the hall. |
| 1715 | William Mackenzie took part in the Jacobite Rising. He was found guilty of treason and lost Coxhoe and was almost executed. |
| 1740’s | Mary & Williams eldest son was a conformist and bought back the estate after his father’s death. |
| 1742 | Turnpike Road from Stockton – Durham replacing Roman Rd |
| 1750-1837AD INDUSTRIAL PERIOD | |
| 1755 | John Burdon, wealthy salt & shipping agent bought Coxhoe Hall. West end gallery of Kelloe Church erected by John Burdon |
| 1758-1760 | John Burdon conveyed the hall to his niece Sarah Burdon and her 1st husband John Swinburne |
| 1759 | Coxhoe Square mention in Kelloe birth records. Demolished 1938. |
| 1769 | 27 June, J Burdon sold Coxhoe Estate to J Swinburn & Sarah Burdon. They had previously rented. Boring for coal in Coxhoe, by John Burdon Coxhoe Pottery owned by Lammas family in operation. |
| 1769 | Samuel Lammas, potter, operated at Coxhoe Pottery. |
| 1782 | Coxhoe Hall let to Thomas Wilkinson |
| 1787 | Sarah nee Burdon married 2nd husband Sir James Riddell Baronet. Sarah buried in Westminster Abbeys South Transept 1817 with her stepson who was killed in a dual |
| 1794 | Coxhoe Hall sold under a Degree in Chancery to John Foster of Lincoln’s Inn Esq.. a quick sale |
| 1797 | 1797 Coxhoe Hall up for sale. |
| C1791 | Blue Bell Pub” on the turnpike road, renamed Railway Tavern |
| 1801 | 27 houses in Coxhoe, population 117. |
| 1806- 1809 | Edward Barrett Moulton Barrett rented the Coxhoe Hall. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born there. |
| 1807 | Coxhoe Hall put up for let while Barrett’s renting. |
| 1809 | Thomas Cooke Esq advertised the estate of Coxhoe for let. |
| 1816 | Cornforth Pottery established |
| 1817 | 12 March, Coxhoe Hall up for auction. Bought by Anthony Wilkinson |
| C1817 | The Three Tuns established |
| 1824 | Coxhoe Hall up for sale |
| 1824-1831 | Coxhoe Hall empty. Up for sale after Wilkinson death 1851. |
| 1827 | Bells Pit sunk near Park Hill estate, owner John Bell |
| 1833 | Clarence Railway |
| 1831 | 2 blacksmiths in operation, population 154 |
| 1832 | 28 July. Coxhoe Corn Mill & farm for sale |
| 1834 | Coxhoe railway opened. Crow Trees Colliery |
| 1835 | Coxhoe Colliery at Joint Stocks. Also Kelloe Pit |
| 1837-1901AD VICTORIAN PERIOD | |
| 1837 | Garmondsway & West Hetton started to produce coal. Bell’s Pit open at Park Hill |
| 1838 | Cornforth Colliery sunk, close to Coxhoe bridge |
| 1839 | Clarence Hetton – Clay Hole Colliery nr Steetley Football Field opened |
| 1839 | 18 March. Opening of Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway and first shipment of coal from Kelloe Colliery |
| C1839 | Primitive Methodist in two cottages at Foundry Row. |
| 1839 | Tax Assessment – James Farrish owns Coxhoe Square and Quarries |
| 1840 | Bowburn Pit nr Kicking Cuddy. |
| C 1840 | 22 May. Coxhoe Hall for sale by Anthony Wilkinson Esq |
| 1840 | Long Row built, belonged to Rosedale & Ferryhill and Iron Co. Rebuilt by Kelloe Colliery Co about 1903, demolished 1971 |
| 1840 | First Wesleyan Capel built at Wesley Place |
| 1841 | Bowburn Colliery & Steetly Quarry commenced operation. Heugh Hall Colliery. There were 816 houses in Coxhoe. Population 3, 904 |
| 1844 | Colliery sank at South Kelloe. 7 Feb. First shipment of coal from Coxhoe Colliery took place at Stockton. |
| 1844 | Coxhoe Cycling Club formed 25 July. |
| 1844 | 25 July. The Pitman’s Strike. Shop keepers in Coxhoe contributed £10 towards the funds |
| 1845 | Quarrying at Raisby Hill Garmondsway for limestone. |
| 1846 | Coxhoe Bridge station open near Coxhoe Beck |
| 1850 | Coke Works & Iron Foundry established. Field’s Brickworks at Cow Close, Cornforth Lane |
| C1850 | Belgrave House/Cornforth Villa, early owner Ralph Carnaby, potter. James Tait the manager of Raiby Quarry and Dr A Oliver |
| 1851 | Coxhoe Collieries on strike |
| 1851 | 13 Oct. Died in London, Anthony Wilkinson Esq of Coxhoe Durham & Clennell Northumberland. |
| 1851 | Clay tobacco pipes manufactured by William Row. Coxhoe population 4,101. |
| C1852 | Coxhoe Bridge Hotel built |
| 1853 | Beehive Coke Ovens near Prospect Place |
| 1856-1881 | Iron Foundry – behind The Commercial Inn |
| 1857 | Thomas Wood residing in Coxhoe Hall, Anthony Wilkinson ex owner. Remainder of land James Farish Esq. |
| C1860 | Coxhoe Temperance Brass Band started |
| 1858 | Winterton County Asylum opened, Sedgefield |
| 1863 | 24 Dec. Explosion at Coxhoe Colliery due to fire damp, 19 lives lost |
| 1864 | Goodyear’s Brickworks near Tursdale. |
| 1865 | Coxhoe a separate parish from Kelloe & Bishop Middleham, now own church & burial ground |
| 1865 | Primitive Chapel built, closed 1964 |
| 1866/7 | Cholera epidemic, first case 28th Dec. First came to England from India. 1831 further outbreaks 1848, then 1866. 26 fatal cases in 1867. |
| 1868 | Coxhoe an ecclesiastical parish, St Mary’s Church Consecrated |
| 1868 | Last Case of damages heard in Durham sheriffs court against a Coxhoe brick manufacturer for faulty equipment. |
| 1869 | Durham Miners Assoc formed |
| 1870 | Coke works & Iron Foundry closed |
| 1875 | Men from Tursdale Coke Ovens formed a co-operative society |
| 1871 | Wesleyan Chapel built. Originally had large portico and ornamental front which was removed. |
| C1872 | Grange House/’Gas House’ built for proprietor of the Coxhoe Gas Works. |
| 1878 | 27 Dec. Soup and bread given to the poor for 3rd time |
| 1880 | 17 Aug. Cow Close Farm for sale .. E Collingwood |
| 1883 | 29 Aug. Cow Close Brickworks dismantled and auctioned |
| 1885 | 30 Oct. Coxhoe Colliery Farm up for sale |
| 1887 | 2 Dec. 200 trees and shrubs were planted in St Mary’s Churchyard to commemorate the Queens Jubilee |
| 1890 | Thomas Wood of Surrey is hall owner, his son William Henry Wood Esq in residence. Landowner, Thomas Wood and Sibella Jones trustees. Sebella’s 1st husband James Farish, 2nd Arthur O’Brian Jones. |
| John Wood son of William Henry Wood inherited Coxhoe Hall | |
| 1897 | 8 Sept. Memorial to Eliz Barrett Browning erected in Kelloe Church |
| 1899 | 15 June. New Coxhoe Cycling Club formed |
| 1900 | 13 June Exceptional Thunderstorm in Coxhoe killed R. Herons horse close to West House Farm. |
| 1902 | Blue Row replaced by Front Coronation Terrace. Started to build Co-operative Terrace |
| 1903 | Long Row rebuilt by Kelloe Colliery Co., demolished 1971 |
| 1905 | 5 Dec, Bell Bros (Bowburn Colliery) erected 20 houses for sinkers (Coronation Terrace) costing £3,500. |
| 1906-1967 | First sinking at Bowburn Colliery (Known as the New Tursdale) |
| 1906 | Steetley Basic Works. Closed 1981 Sept- Typhoid traced to milk supply from Paradise Farm. Contaminated water from well used to wash milking utensils. |
| 1908 | Bowburn colliery established |
| 1908 | Cornforth Lane Council Scholl opened |
| 1910 | Social & Literacy Institute from 4 small, connected cottages, later replaced by larger one, 1932, the Village hall. |
| 1911 | Coxhoe population 3,833 |
| 1913 | Queen Mary passed through Coxhoe |
| 1914 | New Electric Cinema/ Gem Cinema, proprietor Gordon Gray |
| 1915 | The then postmaster J Kingston celebrated his golden wedding at Coxhoe hall photo |
| 1918-1925 | Outbreak of Influenza originated in Spain |
| 1921 | First Council Housing at Lynne Park Terrace |
| 1922 | Village War Memorial from the Great War unveiled |
| 1923 | Boiled sweet factory – The Avenue. Later used as a Blacksmiths shop, a fire station during WW2 and later DCC’s building depot. |
| 1925 | First electricity |
| 1925 | William Chisholm studio at the end of Sanderson Terrace |
| 1926 | General Strike lasted 8 months |
| 1929 | Two cottages on Avenue Cinema site demolished |
| 1930 | The depression |
| C1930 | V Panico had 2 shops: Laing’s newsagents and one where the chemist is. |
| 1931 | Park Hill Estate built. First houses of the Grove built, completed 1948 |
| 1932 | 21 Ap. Foundation to new Village Hall laid at the rear of the old cottages |
| 1938 | Coxhoe Hall up for sale after death of John Wood, purchased by East Hetton Colliery. |
| 1939 | Troops were placed and huts were built in Coxhoe Hall grounds. Later, Italian prisoners captured in North Africa were billeted there as were German prisoners |
| 1940 | Murder of Constable Shiell |
| 1946 | 2 Sept. Squatters moved into the huts after the war because of desperate need for housing. |
| 1947 | The NCB owners of Coxhoe Hall declared the building unsafe and demolished it Aug 1952. |
| 1947 | 1 March. Boxer Bob Bates who fought Hull featherweight Franki Jackson was killed in a coal mine accident |
| 1966 | St Joseph’s Church consecrated. Grounds cover site of Bunch of Grapes Inn |
| 1967 | Thrislington Colliery closed owners Henry Stobart & Co |
| 1971 | Long Row demolished. |
| 1981 | Steetley demolished |
| 1981 | Ancient Ave dismantled and Sandgate, later renamed Prospect Place. |
| 1982 | Mining at East Hetton Colliery causes subsidence in the Grove Estate. |
| 1983 | East Hetton Colliery, Kelloe, closes. |
| 1984 | Clarence Railway removed |
| 1984 | Cornforth Lane Comprehensive School opened, closed 1984. |
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