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Holywell, 1855
Extract from: History, Topography, and Directory of Northumberland...Whellan, William, & Co, 1855.
HOLYWELL is a township and village, the property of the Duke of Northumberland, and the executors of the late R. Bates, Esq. of Milburn Hall. The township comprises an area of 1,180 acres, and its rateable value is £3,701. The number of inhabitants in 1801, was 107; in 1811, 124; in 1821, 100; in 1831, 478; in 1841, 1,164; and in 1851, 1,134 souls. The rapid increase of the population observable in this township is attributed to the opening of collieries. The manor was formerly held in soccage of the Baliols by the Delavals who had property here in 1435. At present the manorial rights and privileges are possessed by the Duke of Northumberland. THE VILLAGE of Holywell is situated five and a half miles N.N.W. of North Shields, and derives its name from Our Lady's Well, which is in the immediate vicinity; the medicinal properties of the water of this well were formerly much esteemed. It possesses the singular property of becoming of a puce colour when galls are infused into it. The village consists of two inns, two shops, and several farm houses and cottages.
EAST HOLYWELL COLLIERY is, as its name implies, a colliery hamlet, con¬sisting of four or five rows of cottages inhabited oy the pitmen in the employment of Hugh Taylor, & Co., the owners of the colliery here, of which Mr. Robert Bell is cashier, and Mr. Robert Hann, under viewer.
WEST HOLYWELL COLLIERY is another hamlet in this township, and is inhabited by about 150 persons, who are employed in and about the colliery which gives name to the hamlet. This colliery is now worked by the executors of William Clarke, Thomas Taylor, John Buddle, and others. Here is a small Methodist Chapel, erected in 1829. The Blyth and Tyne Railway Company have a station here, George Horsley, station master.
SEATON TERRACE is also a hamlet in this township, situated on the Shields and Morpeth Turnpike Road, one mile north of Holywell. It consists of a row of neat and substantial stone cottages two stories high, and possesses two inns, besides two or three grocers' shops. It is chiefly inhabited by the working classes.
Directory
POST OFFICE, WEST HOLYWELL, James Thompson postmaster. Letters arrive from Newcastle at 9.45 a.m. and are despatched thereto at 6.25 p.m.
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Brown Ralph, under-viewer, West Holywell Dixon Thomas, gardener, Holywell Hedley John, cashier, West Holywell Hann Robert, under-viewer, East Holywell Colliery; ho. Blue House Farm Stevenson Jas. schoolmaster West Holywell
Boot and Shoe Makers Charlton Willlam, Holywell Clark Henry, Seaton Terrace
Butchers Barras Cuthbert, viot. Victoria New Inn, Seaton Terrace Carr J. Seaton Terrace Dixson Thos. Hunter, Holywell Marshall R, Holywell
Farmers Meek R. Holywell Sankey Stephen, Holywell Grange Smith Hannah, Fenwick's Close Smith John, Fenwick's Close Smith William, Bank Top |
Grocers and Flour Dealers English Edward, Seaton Ter Jeffrey W. Holywell Smith Geo. Seaton Terrace Tait William, Seaton Terrace Temperley John, Holywell Thompson Jas. West Holywell
Inns and Taverns Fat Ox Inn ,John Ellerington, Holywell Half Moon, R. Marshall, Holywell Prince Albert Inn, Sarah Elliott, Seaton Terrace Victoria New Inn, Cuthbert Barras, Seaton Terrace
Joiner and Cartwright Pringle Eleanor, Holywell
Smith & Agricultural Implement Maker Rogers James, Holywell
Tailors Bodger Matthew, Seaton Ter. Bryce John, Seaton Terrace Dawson James, merchant tailor, Holywell Harrison James, Seaton Ter |
