STOCKTON WARD 



REDMARSHALL 



trust fund has been invested in railway securities and 

 mortgages producing an income of about £<\^^o a 

 year. A stipend of lo/. a week is paid to each of 

 the inmates. 



The Chilton Endowment Fund was founded by 

 Mrs. Mary Ovington Trotter by deed dated i 7 Decem- 

 ber 1920. She gave ^3,000, the income arising there- 

 from to be applied by the trustees to or for the bene- 

 fit of any of the inmates of Fox's Almshouses. The 

 money was invested in ^{^5,783 zs. Si/. Local Loans 

 3 per cent, stock with the official trustees, producing 

 j^l73 10/. yearly. 



The charity of Elizabeth Clifton for organist in 

 the ecclesiastical parish of St. Michael and All Angels, 

 Norton, founded by will proved at Durham 16 April 

 1 90 1, is regulated by a scheme of the Charity Com- 

 missioners of 29 November 1921, under the terms 

 of which the vicar is appointed sole trustee. The 

 endowment consists of /108 7/. iid". India 3J per 

 cent, stock with the official trustees, producing 



£^ 15/. 8d. yearly, which is applied towards the 

 salary of the organist. 



Educational Charities. — The Grammar School 

 Educational Endowment has already been dealt with.' 



The official trustees now (1926) hold a sura of 



^441 H'- S'^- '"'J'* 3 P" "^"'- ^^°'^^ arising from 

 the proceeds of sales of real estate, and j(^26 10/. i ii/. 

 2J per cent, consols repre^enting £10 paid by the 

 Rural District Council for the right to lay a sewer 

 through land belonging to the charity, producing 

 j^i 3 18/. yearly. 



An account has been already given of the elementary 

 school and the charity of Ann Hogg, founded by 

 will, dated in I796.'' The official trustees hold a 

 sum of j^i52 19/. SJ. India 3 per cent, stock, [re- 

 ducing j^4 I It. Sd. yearly, which, in accordance with 

 the scheme of 9 June 1891 regul.iting the charity, is 

 applied in the payment of rewards to girls at the 

 school who have attained standards higher than 

 Standard IV. 



REDMARSHALL 



Redmershill (xiii cent.). 



The parish is composed of three townships : Red- 

 marshall, in which is the church, Carlton, adjacent to 

 the north-east, and Stillington, quite detached, to the 

 north-west. The areas of the three townships are 

 87;, 1,499 ''"'i J>'53 acres in the order mentioned. 

 The general surface is flat, but elevated about I 50 ft. 

 to I 80 ft. above sea level. A brook runs north through 

 the centre of Redmarshall and Carlton to join Whitton 

 Beck near Thorpe Thewles, and here there is a valley. 

 In Stillington the surface is rather more varied, and 

 rises to over 200 ft. above the ordnance datum, several 

 brooks running south-east to join the Bishopton or 

 Whitton Beck, which forms the boundary on that side. 

 Shotton Beck bounds it on the north. 



A road from Stockton to Whitton passes north-west 

 near the small village of Redmarshall, placed amid 

 trees. At this point a cross-road leads west to Bishop- 

 ton and cast to Carlton, dividing here to go north to 

 Thorpe Thewles and south and east to Stockton and 

 Norton. The village of Stillington lies on the road 

 from Grindon to Great Stainton. The West Hartle- 

 pool branch of the London and North Eastern rail- 

 way runs eastward through the parish and has stations 

 called Stillington and Redmarshall, the latter being at 

 Carlton Grange. At the eastern boundary it makes a 

 junction with the line from Stockton north to 

 Sunderland. 



The soil is clay, suitable for wheat growing ; oats, 

 barley and potatoes also are raised. About 1845 the 

 land was thus used ^ : 2,530 acres of arable, 791 acres 

 of pasture and 16 acres of woodland ; now the figures 

 for the parish are^ 1,115 acres of arable, 1,981 acres 

 of pasture and 38 acres of woodland. There are 

 isolated plantations in each of the townships. Among 



17th-century field names in Stillington are Whitton 

 lands, Margerie garth lands and Boynton lands ; the 

 inhabitants had 'beast gates' or common on the 

 moor." Some chemical works stand by Carlton station. 



The story of the parish has been as peaceful as befits 

 a retired agricultural community. One of the storiei 

 of the early miracles of St. Godric relates the cure of 

 the son of the smith of Stillington.** The rising of I 569 

 drew five men to join it from Redmarshall and five from 

 Stillington; one from each place was executed.' The 

 Protestation of 1641 was signed in the parish. i" Sir 

 Anthony Carlisle was born at Stillington in 1768. 

 He became surgeon to the Westminster Hospital, and 

 was made a knight in 1820. He died in London in 

 1 840."'» 



A Wesleyan chapel was built at Carlton in 1871. 

 Mass is said once a month in the Roman Catholic 

 chapel at Stillington. 



Among the Durham charters i-s one 

 MANORS by which Walter Bek granted 4 oxgangs 

 of the demesne land in Redmarshall to 

 Adam the Carpenter." Bishop Robert (1274-83) 

 confirmed it, with reservation of the advowson, 

 to Thomas de Multon, who had inherited it from 

 his brother Edmund, who had purchased the manor 

 from John Bek.'- From Thomas de Multon it was 

 purchased by Henry de Lisle, lord of the neigh- 

 bouring Wynyard.'^ Alan de Langton of Wynyard 

 had a dispute with the men of Redmarshall in i 307. '■* 

 He was lord of the place in 131 I '^ and Henry in 

 I 3 14."' From that time it descended with Wynyard 

 in the families of Langton, Conyers and Claxton until 

 the partition of the estates after the death of William 

 Claxton in 1597. It was then divided among his 

 three co-heirs, Cassandra wife of Lancelot Claxton, 



' See r.C.H. Dur. i, 400. 



* See ibid. 4.09. 



* Lewis, Tof>og. Diet. 



' Statistics from Bd. of Agric. (1905). 

 ' Dur. Rec. cl. 4, no. i, fol. 326. 

 « rita S. Godrid (Surt. Soc), 38;. 

 'Sharp, Mem, Rebellion of 1569, 

 pp. 250, 251. 



Rep. 



App. 



>" Hist. MSS. Com. 

 125. 



'"■1 Diet. Nat. Biog. 



" Surtccs, Hilt, and Antiq. of eo, Pdlat. 

 oj Dur. iii, 70 n., 71. 



" Reg. Palat. Dunetm. (Rolls Scr.), ii, 

 1197. Glover states that Bishop Bek 

 (1284-1311) gave it to his brother, John 



Bek, but this charter proves the state- 

 ment to be in error, 



" Surtees, loc. cit. quoting Glover the 

 berald. 



'* Baldon Bk. (Surt. Soc), App. p. xxxvi. 



" Reg. Palat. Duntlm. (Rolls Ser.), i, 

 73 J ii, I2CO. 



'Mbid. i, 632. 



