A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



Trimdon. — Henry Airey by will of i February, 1680, devised a rent charge of ^^5 towards 

 maintaining a free school here. It does not appear that any building was expressly appropriated for 

 a school until about 1821, when a schoolhouse was built adjoining the churchyard. About 1862 

 a new school was built upon the waste. Airey's Charity is applied towards its support, under Board 

 of Education Scheme of 14 July, 1902. This school was enlarged in 1892, and now seats 120. 

 There are 3 other schools : Old Trimdon (R. C), seating 141 ; and Trimdon Grange Colliery 

 school, seating 643, built 1843 by the company and enlarged 1880 and 1890; and Trimdon 

 Colliery Girls' and Infants', seating 444, built 1874 by the Trimdon Colliery, and enlarged 1890 

 and 1 90 1. 



TuNSTALL. — There are 2 schools : a Church of England school seating 863, built by 

 the Marquess of Londonderry and founded 1876 ; and i Roman Catholic, seating 172, built 

 1874-5. 



Waldridge. — A colliery school, undenominational, seating 405, was enlarged 1888 and 

 1890. 



Washington. — School Board formed 17 May, 1890. There are 5 schools in existence: 



1 Roman Catholic, seating 410, built 1862; i P., seating 220; 2 Council schools, seating 900, 

 built 1892 and 1899; and 2, seating 122, an institution school subject to Section 15 Education 

 Act, 1902. 



West Auckland — There are 2 schools, St. Helen's (Ch. of Eng.), seating 531, originated in 

 a grant by Elizabeth Donald, 2 March, 1789, of a yearly rent charge of ^^5 for instructing 10 poor 

 girls. The school seems to have been built on the waste of the manor in 1798, chiefly at the 

 expense of Mrs. Margaret Hubbock, who also gave ;^iOO in augmentation of the endowment. By 

 grant of 26 September, 1801, by the bishop of Durham as lord of the manor, the trusts of the 

 school premises were declared. The endowment, including the rent-charge, 2 acres of land, and 



2 cottages, produces about ;^23 yearly. The Etherley National School, seating 299, was built in 

 1833, and several times enlarged. 



West Herrington. — St. Cuthbert's National School, built 1861, is let on a yearly agreement 

 by the earl of Durham. 



West Rainton. — There are 3 Church of England schools, seating 999. The oldest of these, 

 West Rainton, built 1850 and 1862, and seating 567, is partly maintained by the Marquess of 

 Londonderry. 



Whickham. — There are 8 schools here. Whickham Parochial School, enlarged about 1889, 

 and seating 308, was founded as a charity school, 17 14, by Robert Thomlinson, D.D., who 

 applied to this purpose a legacy of ;^ioo, bequeathed by will of Jane Blakiston, proved 1714 ; and 

 also by will proved 7 June, 1748, gave certain pews in the parish church and j^ioo for its support. 

 It is endowed also with ^^213 I2s. 4^. consols, representing an allotment made under an award of 

 1821, and a sum of j^25i, North-Eastern Stock, in respect of the charities of the Rev. H. B. Carr 

 and Sir Thomas John Clavering. A School Board was formed 26 March, 1873. A Church of 

 England school, seating 226, was built 1 81 8. There were 2 Roman Catholic schools, seating 569, 

 and 4 Council schools, seating 2,383 (earliest built 1874). 



Whitburn. — There are 3 schools here : of these, i, Whitburn, National, seating 400, and 

 built 1824, and I, Cleadon, Church of England, seating 127, and built 1830, were jointly endowed 

 by Richard Shortridge, by will proved 7 February, 1885, with ;^447 I2J. jd. consols. The 

 Whitburn Colliery School belongs to the Harton Coal Co., who let it on a yearly agreement. 



Whitton. — School Board formed 23 July, 1874. A Council school, seating 313, built 1877. 

 The former church school, built about 1870, by the late Rev. Wm. Cassidy, vicar of Grindon, 

 is rented by the board as an infant's school. 



Whorlton. — A National School, seating 143, built 1848, and enlarged 1870. 



WiLLiNGTON. — School l}oard, formed 3 October, 1877. There are 5 schools here. A 

 National, seating 308, built 1852, which shares Anne Dobinson's Charity (sec Brancepcth School) 

 and in 1901 received j^i 3, applied partly in prizes, partly in maintenance of the school. Two 

 British schools, seating 845, Oakenshaw and Page Bank, belong to Messrs. Strakers and Lowe, of 

 Ncwcastle-on-Tyne, and receive £8 los. a year in respect of Henry Grice's Charity (sec Brancepcth), 

 applied in scholarships; i, a Roman Catholic school, seating 366, was built 1877, and a Council 

 school, seating 644, built 1880, was enlargeil 1893. 



WiNDi.EsroNE. — A Church of England school, seating 126. 



Wingate. — School Board formed 2 February, 1876. There are 5 schools here, of which 

 4 arc Council schools seating 2,056, and I, Roman Catholic, seating 258. Wingate receives 

 payments from Slierburn Hospital. 



Winston. — Tlic scIidoI licre was endowed before 1748 by Lord Crewe, bishop of Durham, 

 who gave {jo, now ^69 14;. ^J. consols, and 22 March, 1844, by deed of Ch.arlotte, countess of 

 iJiidgcwatcr, with what is now ^^304 iij. 4//. consols. Tlic present building dates from 1851. 



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