Coanwood
| Coanwood | |
| Northumberland | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Moss House Farm | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NY680592 |
| Location: | 54°55’34"N, 2°29’56"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 199 (2011) |
| Post town: | Haltwistle |
| Postcode: | NE49 |
| Dialling code: | 01434 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Northumberland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Hexham |
Coanwood is a village in Northumberland, and is part of the Parish of Haltwhistle.[1] Coanwood sits about four miles south-west of Haltwhistle, on the South Tyne. Nearby is a similar village, Lambley.
Coanwood was anciently written as 'Collingwood' meaning "Hazel Trees/Woods".[1]
The village has coal reserves and has in the past been a coal mining area. From the 1860s to 1930 coal was worked in the area. In 1914 the Coanwood Coal Company employed 63 people. [2]
Churches
Quaker Meetings were first held in 1659 after a licence was obtained by Cuthbert Wigham, then lord of the manor, from the Quarter Sessions. This licence was for his home, Burn House, to be used for Quaker Meetings. Coanwood Friends Meeting House was built in 1760 by Cuthbert Wigham to hold the "silent" Quaker meetings. Coanwood Reading Society at the Quaker Meeting House was closed 17 October 1909 after 59 years.[1] and the meeting house is now in the care of the Historic Chapels Trust
History
Sir Simon Musgrave was recorded in 1568 as possessed of East and West Coingwood, which he and his wife Julian conveyed in 1575 to Richard Lowther. Lowther's daughter Anne married Alexander Featherstonhaugh. By 1633, Albany Featherstonhaugh was Lord of the Manor, and in 1656 sold the manor to Nicholas Byreley of Whitehall, Durham, though it appears that he retain part of the estates. In 1657 Byerley and Thomas Selby of Winlaton, conveyed the manor to Thomas Wallis, of Ash Holme.[1] In 1659 Cuthbert Wigham bought the Manor of East and West Coanwood with 14 tenements and 500 acres land and common of pasture from Albany Featherstonhaugh, Nicholas Byreley, and Thos Selby.
A riding of the manor boundary took place on 1 May 1700. Thomas Wallis, Lord of Manor of West Coanwood and Matthew Wigham, Lord of the Manor of East Coanwood together with their 20 customary tenants rode the boundary between Chriswell Bourne and Old Lough Foote, Whitfield. Boundary agreed and signed by all.[1]
The turn of the Century, in 1900, was a much quieter time in Coanwood with several properties falling into disrepair for the first time. This was mainly due to the closure of the Colliery at Dykes in the late 1800s and the Miners moving to pastures new.[1]
In 1970 Yont the Cleugh farm was bought by Neville Hanson and converted into a caravan park which he ran with his son Peter until it changed hands in 1995.[1]
Coanwood was served by Coanwood Railway Station on the Alston Line from Haltwhistle to Alston. The line opened in 1852 and closed in 1976.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Coanwood village
- ↑ Durham Mining Museum website accessed 10.1.2014 http://www.dmm.org.uk/company/c021.htm