STOCKTON WARD 



LONG NEWTON 



The plate consists of a small chalice and paten 

 of 1868 ; a flagon of 1829 given in 1836 by the 

 Rev. William Addison Fountain, rector ; and a 

 set of two chalices, two patens, a flagon and an 

 almsdish of 1888, presented in 1889 under the 

 will of Robert Henry Allan of Blackwall Hall, 

 Darlington. 



The registers of marriages and burials begin in 

 1616 ; that of baptisms in 1652. They have been 

 printed down to 1812.^* 



The church of ST. LJf^RENCE at Middleton 

 One Row was built in 1871, and is a stone building 

 in the 13th-century style, consisting of a chancel, 

 nave, vestry, south porch and bell-turret with spire. 

 In it are preserved a Saxon sundial ^^ and two 

 mediaeval grave covers,^^ one of elaborate design, all 

 of which had formerly been built into the walls of 

 the old church. 



It has been related above that 

 ADfOllSON the Baard fee in Middleton had 

 been divided into two before 

 I 166, and this division extended to the rectory, for 

 about I 200 two rectors, John and William, attested 

 a charter.^- In i 240, on the death of a rector, the 

 Archbishop of York ordained that one moiety 

 should be held as a rectory, the other as a vicarage ; 

 the patronage belonged to the tenants of the two 

 moieties of the Baard fee.^^ In 1291 the portion 

 of Peter de Cerecy was taxed as worth £() 6s. 8V., 

 and that of Geofi'rey de Schilvede as worth ^^4.** 

 In I 312 the bishop confirmed the ancient division 

 of the church into two parts ; the sinecure moiety 

 was held by William de London, who had been 

 presented by Ralph Baard, and the working moiety 



was held by John de Cambe, with the title of vicar 

 only, on the presentation of John de Cambe, his 

 father.^ The Scottish devastations here, as else- 

 where, necessitated a reduction in the valuations, and 

 in 1 3 1 8 these were ^^4 1 3/. \d. and £2 61. id. 

 respectively.'* In the returns of 1545 the rector's 

 income was estimated at £\ a year, out of which he 

 paid 5/. to the rector of Egglesclifte and 2/. to the 

 archdeacon.*' 



The rights of patronage descended with the Baard 

 and Cambe portions of the manor, and, as has been 

 shown above, were both acquired by the second line 

 of Killinghall early in the 17th century.^ The 

 last presentation to the sinecure rectory appears to 

 have been made in 1625.'' Probably the Civil 

 War made a breach in old custom sufficiently long 

 to enable the patron to keep the sinecure moiety in 

 his own hands from that time. A terrier of 1792 

 printed by Surtees records that a moiety of the 

 tithes, &c., went to the rector, the patron having 

 the other moiety.^" In succession to Killingh.dl and 

 Pemberton, Elisha Cocks was patron in or about 1 820, 

 Henry Cocks in 1833, H. A. W. Cocks in 1848-98. 

 More recently the Bishop of Durham has acquired 

 the patronage. 



There is a tradition that a chapel formerly existed 

 in Goosepool for the ancient ' vill of West Hart- 

 burn.''"- A chapel at Ponteys Bridge, subject to the 

 church of Dinsdale, was in existence in or about 1200, 

 when benefactions were made to it by Cecily daughter 

 of Gilbert de Heworth.** It was dedicated to St. 

 John, and existed as late as I50i.''* 



The schools have been dealt with 



CHARITIES 



elsewhere.'" 



LONG NEWTON 



Lang Newton, 1260. 



The parish and township of Long Newton is 

 bounded by Egglesclifte and Middleton St. George 

 on the south, Haughton le Skcrne on the west, 

 Bishopton and Elton on the north and Stockton on 

 the east. The village with the parish church stands 

 near the centre upon a long ridge of slightly elevated 

 land extending from south-west to north-east between 

 two bnmches of the Hartburn or Coatham Beck. To 

 the south and east of the ridge the surface is lower, 

 descending to 50 ft. above the ordnance datum at 

 the extreme east ; to the north-west it is usually 

 higher, attaining 200 ft. at the boundary of New- 

 biggin. Coatham Stob or Coatham Conyers occupies 

 a projecting part of the township at the east end. 

 Call Hill and West Moor are in the south, Hard- 

 stones and Haughthorn in the west, Bewley Hill, 

 Larberry and Fox Hill in the north. The area is 

 4,311 acres. Part of Goosepool, in the township of 



Middleton St. George, has been commonly regarded 

 as within the parish of Long Newton.' 



The principal road is that which goes westward 

 from Stockton to Darlington, passing through the 

 village. To the north there is a road from Norton 

 to Darlington, and to the south one from Yarm and 

 Egglesclifte to Darlington ; from the village roads 

 lead north and south to join these roads, and another 

 road goes south-west to Middleton. The Stockton 

 and Darlington section of the London and North 

 Eastern Railway crosses the south end of the parish. 



The soil is varied, in parts a strong clay ; wheat 

 and oats are grown, also beans. A little before the 

 middle of the 19th century 3,000 acres were arable,- 

 and the distribution is 1,484 acres of arable, 2,472 

 of permanent grass and 143 of woods and planta- 

 tions.' The plantations are in detached portions, 

 partly along Coatham Beck and partly on the 

 northern border. Stone quarries used to be worked.* 



** Dur. ami Northumb. Par. Reg. So^. 

 xii (1906). Transcribed and edited by 

 Herbert Maxwell Wood, M.A. 



»» See r.C.H. Dur. i, 240. 



" Proc. Sm. yjniij. Niivcaiilt (Ser. 3), 

 IT, 244. One of the grave covers is 

 figured ibid. 232. 



^* Feod. Prior. Dunrlm. (Surt. See), 

 14S, i$o. William Baard was rector in 

 1228 (ibid. 249) 



" Archhp. Grayi Reg. (Surt. Soc), 

 87-8. 



" Pope Kiih. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 315. 



" Reg. Fatal. Dunelm. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 

 116;. 



« Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 330. 



»' P'alor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), t, 317. 



*'' Christopher Pincknev presented in 

 1705 (Inst. Bks. [P.R.O.]). 



'^ See list in Surtees. 



299 



*° Surtees, op. cit. iii, 224. 



" Ibid. 226. 



" Ibid, ii, 229 ; iii, 394 ; FioJ. Pritr. 

 Dunelm. (Surt. Soc), 162. 



** Surtees, op. cit. ii, 228. 



" y.C.H. Dur. i, 408. 



^ See the account of Middleton St. 

 George. ' Lewis, Topog. Diet. 



' Statistics from Bd. of Agric. (190$). 



* Lewis, op. cit. 



