A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



127 ft. in height, erected to commemorate the visit 

 of the Dulce of Wellington in 1827. 



Fulthorpe is a farm south-west of Wynyard Park. 

 Farther in this direction, and about a mile south of 

 Grindon Old Church, is the village of Thorpe 

 Thewles. It stands on very low ground near the 

 Thorpe Beck, on the high road from Durham to 

 Stockton. Twelfth-century place-names in Thorpe 

 Thewles include Hundeflat, Rietofts, Denemuthe, 

 Laitholf, Childrelane, Paddocnol, Standandestan, 

 Lederodcs, Superveneland, Crosfurlang, Hecleve, 

 Rerful, Scrogmedene, Blaikeshope. Thorpe Thewles 

 Cross is mentioned in the same period.^ 



all joyning one to another, fruitfuU of soile and 

 plcisant of situation, and so bewtified and adorned 

 with woods and groves as noe landcs in that parte of 

 the contrie comp.irable with them.' '' The common 

 fields of Thorpe Thewles were inclosed in the time 

 of Elizabeth," those of Whitton shortly before 1617.' 

 A parish hall was built in 1922. 



The vill of GRINDON has been 

 MANORS attached throughout its history to the 

 manor of Fulthorpe." In March 

 1336-7 Roger de Fulthorpe was found to have 

 held a third part of the vill in chief at a free 

 rent of 8/^" His grandson Alan possibly may 



Grindon : The Vane Arms in the Village of Thorpe Thewles 



The Vane Arms Inn, in Thorpe Thewles village, is 

 a picturesque two-story brick house with curved 

 gable and red pantiled roof broken by a large chimney. 

 It belongs to the first half of the I 8th century and 

 was formerly whitewashed.* It has lately been 

 restored and roughcasted, all the windows being 

 renewed. This is apparently the house which was 

 supposed by Surtees to have been the residence of the 

 Kendal family.' 



The modern church of Thorpe Thewles stands at 

 the east end of the village street near the railway. 

 The Stockton and Ferry Hill branch of the London 

 and North Eastern railway runs from south to north 

 through the parish and has a station at Thorpe 

 Thewles, a little to the north of the vill.ige. 



An advertisement of 1 623 describes this district thus: 

 ' These severall mannors and landes of Fulthrop, 

 Winyard and Thorpthules doe lye very comodiously 



have been the 'Adam Fulford ' who about 1384 held 

 the whole vill for a rent of 2/.*' In the subsequent 

 inquisitions of the Fulthorpe family the extent of the 

 vill is given as 10 tofts and about 180 acres. '- 



The manor of FULTHORPE was held from the 

 earliest period for which there is evidence by a family 

 of that name. Roger de Fulthorpe and Roger his 

 son are found witnessing charters to Finchale in the 

 early i 3th century.'^ The younger Roger had a son 

 Adam,^'' probably the Adam son of Roger de 

 Fulthorpe, kt., who was concerned in an agree- 

 ment about land in Thrislington in 1262.''^ He was 

 succeeded by Roger, probably his son,'*' who was dead 

 in March 1 3 36-7." Roger was then said to be 

 seised of a moiety of the manor of Fulthorpe, held in 

 chief for a twelfth part of a knight's fee." This was 

 the normal amount of knight's service due from the 

 manor, the whole of which belonged to Roger's 



' Egcrton Chart. 514. 



' Proc. Soc. Antiij. Newcastle, x, loi. 

 It is illustrated opposite p. 92. It was 

 then (1901) * rather dilapidated.' 



' Surtees, op. cit. iii, 80. 



« Ibid. 77-8. 



' Exch. Dep. (Spec. Com.), no. 3745. 



' Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 436, no. 9. 



' Surtees, op. cit. iii, 75. 



'» Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 1 2d. 



" Hatfield' % Surv. (Surt. Soc), 167. 

 For Alan sec below. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 161, 297, 

 311; file 168, no. 7 ; 173, no. 32. For 

 later history see M^Call, Family of tVan- 

 deiforde, 226, 237, 238, 309 ; Feet of F. 

 Dur. Trin. 38 Eliz. ; Trin. 12 Chas. I. 



" Finchale Priory (Surt Soc), 138. 



248 



" Ibid. 146. 



1* Surtees, op. cit. iii, 16. Adam 

 Fauthorpe, possibly the same person, 

 held a fifth of a knight's fee of the 

 bishop in the middle of the i3th century 

 (ibid, i [i], p. cxxviii). 



■« Ibid. 126. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 12 d. 



» Ibid. 



