Tudhoe, Durham

Historical Description

Tudhoe, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Brancepeth parish, Durham, 1 mile N of Spennymoor station on the N.E.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Tudhoe Colliery (T.S.O.), under Spennymoor. Acreage of township, 1852; population, 7653. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1865. Population, 4850. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; net value, £282 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter. The church, erected in 1886, is in the Gothic style, consists of chancel, nave, S porch, and bell turret, and contains several stained windows. There are a chapel of ease, an iron building erected in 1880, a Roman Catholic church, a convent of the Sacred Heart, also collieries and ironworks, Tudhoe Grange, an ecclesiastical parish in Durham, formed in 1884 chiefly out of the ecclesiastical parish of Tudhoe, and partly out of that of St Paul's, Spennymoor. Population, 5977. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office at Low Spennymoor, under Spennymoor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; gross value, £305. Patron, the Bishop. The church, erected in 1884, is in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle, W porch, and an octagonal embattled tower with spire, and is seated for a congregation of between five and six hundred persons. There is also a Baring memorial chapel. There are Wesleyan chapels at Tudhoe Grange and Mount Pleasant, and Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels at Tudhoe Colliery. There are also an institute and reading-rooms. At Tudhoe Colliery is a memorial erected by their fellow-workmen to the men and boys who lost their lives in an explosion in 1882.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Tudhoe from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tudhoe)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for County Durham is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Tudhoe are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering county Durham online:

• Hartlepool Mail
• Northern Echo
• Durham County Advertiser
• Teesdale Mercury