Winston, County Durham
| Winston | |
| County Durham | |
|---|---|
 A village street in Winston | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NZ140167 |
| Location: | 54°32’45"N, 1°47’3"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 431 (2011) |
| Post town: | Darlington |
| Postcode: | DL2 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | County Durham |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Bishop Auckland |
Winston is a little village in County Durham, close by the north bank of the River Tees, the county's southern border, about six miles east of Barnard Castle. It stands at a crossroads between the A67 and B6274 roads.
The 2011 Census recorded population was 431, with the hamlets of Little Newsham and South Cleatlam.
History
In 1870-72 John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Winston as:
A parish, with W. village and Newsham hamlet, in Teesdale district, Durham; on the river Tees, and on the Barnard-Castle and South Durham railway, 6 miles E of Barnard-Castle. It has a post-office under Darlington, a r. station, and a one-arched bridge of 111 feet in span built in 1764. Acres, 2,961. Real property, £3,290. Pop., 342. Houses, 60. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Durham. Value, £534.* Patron, the Bishop of D. The church was rebuilt in 1849. There is a parochial school. Bishop Burgess was a resident.
Winston had a railway station that was first opened in 1856 as part of the Darlington and Barnard Castle Railway, it closed to passengers in 1964 and to freight in 1965 as part of the Beeching cuts, the station building was demolished in 2002, however the goods shed and station master's house still stand.[1]
Near to the station was Westholme Colliery, which employed 87 miners at its peak around the time of the beginning of the First World War, the miner's cottages in the hamlet of South Cleatlam are still evident and now stand as modern residences. After the closure of Westholme in 1914, efforts were turned to two new collieries in the form of Teesside[2] and North Tees.[3] The Teesside colliery closed in August 1938, and North Tees in January 1966, before closure North Tees employed 60 men.[4]
Winston Bridge
Winston Bridge was opened in 1763 over the River Tees for the transport of coal via what is now the B6274 road from Staindrop, south to Richmond in the North Riding of Yorkshire. A hamlet, Winston Gate, grew up on the south side of the bridge and was the location of the barriers and toll booths of the bridge. Designed by Sir Thomas Robinson, who had also designed the nearby Rokeby Hall, it once held claim to having the longest single span arch of any bridge in Europe, at 111 feet.
In July 1988, the bridge was used in the filming of the television serial Piece of Cake, where a Spitfire flew under the bridge piloted by Ray Hanna, a founding member of the RAF Red Arrows aerobatic display team.[5]
Society
St Andrew's Church, a Grade I listed building, dates back to the 13th century, although it went under extensive restoration in 1848.[6] The village also had a Methodist chapel, opened in 1902 and holding its final service in September 2016.[7]
Winston once had a Church of England school that was built in 1851, however in 1961 it was closed, and the building was sold to Hammonds, a Darlington based brewery, it then became village's public house, now known as The Bridgewater Arms.[8]
Outside links
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References
- ↑ "Disused Stations: Winston Station". http://disused-stations.org.uk/w/winston/index.shtml.
- ↑ "Durham Mining Museum - Tees Side Colliery". http://www.dmm.org.uk/colliery/t035.htm.
- ↑ "Durham Mining Museum - North Tees Colliery". http://www.dmm.org.uk/colliery/n004.htm.
- ↑ "Village where coal was king" (in en). https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/10783236.village-coal-king/.
- ↑ "Flying back to day Ray Hanna piloted Spitfire under Winston Bridge" (in en). https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/16388538.day-ray-hanna-piloted-spitfire-winston-bridge/.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1160127: Church of St Andrew, Winston (Grade I listing)
- ↑ "Proposal to convert village chapel into two houses" (in en). https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/southdurham/15454383.proposal-convert-chapel-winston-darlington-barnard-castle-two-houses/.
- ↑ "A gentle ramble around Winston when it was an important village on the coal road" (in en). https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/18484995.gentle-ramble-around-winston-important-village-coal-road/.
