Jeff, Thank you so much for that. It would seem appropriate to live near so much woodland as grandfather was a gamekeeper. I shall see if I can get my sons to visit and take a picture next summer. Brenda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Piper" <jeff@piper22.freeserve.co.uk> To: <northumbria@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [NMB] Langley Moor Cottage/Farm,Annfield Plain. > Langley Moor is still signposted off the A693 just south of New Kyo and > is a small road which leads to a row of 6 houses. > Ther can been seen clearly on googlemaps > http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=54.857979,-1.717697&spn=0.001726,0.005681&t=h&z=18 > > Jeff > Stanley > Co. Durham > Land of the Prince Bishops > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jeffpiper/ > > NEGenealogy@aol.com wrote: >> >> In a message dated 05/12/2009 15:44:27 GMT Standard Time, >> brenda.davison@virgin.net writes: >> >> Her address 1911 was Langley Moor Cottage,Annfield Plain. The >> Registration >> District was Lanchester ,the Parish South Moor.I have looked at maps but >> not been able to find a Langley Moor Farm. >> >> >> >> >> Brenda: >> >> First, you may be tempted by the fact that there is a large >> colliery village named Langley Moor within the parish of Brandon. >> However, >> that is many miles south of Annfield Plain and will not be the one you >> want. >> >> The Langley Moor in question is to the SE of Annfield Plain and to >> the >> west of South Moor. I have looked at the OS 1st Edition one-inch map of >> the area (Godfrey Edition), from which, although Langley Moor Cottage(s) >> is/are not marked, the general district is as I have said. >> Unfortunately I >> don't have the 2nd edition "25 inch" map (Godfrey Edition) of that >> district, >> though I do have them for surrounding places, which makes me think that >> perhaps Godfrey didn't cover Langley Moor,it being mainly farm land and >> not >> centred on any major settlement. There was/is a wood called "Langley >> Moor >> Plantation", to the west of Quaking Houses, and it does strike me that >> "Quaking Houses" could well be a later nickname, applied to what may >> have >> originally been "Langley Moor Cottages" - but that's just a guess. >> >> From Whellans' Directory (1894), it appears that the district was >> within the parish of Holmside at that time, the parish having been >> formed in >> 1865 from the townships of Greencroft, Tanfield, Kyo, Chester le Street, >> Edmondsley, Langley and Lanchester (this will mean "from all or parts of >> the >> townships of .....), the parish itself having apparently formed a new >> township caled Holmside Township. It was "principally the property of >> the Earl of >> Durham, Miss Allgood, A Wilkinson Esq and George Hobson Esq." Of those, >> the Earl of Durham was a Lambton, the Allgoods are a family still centred >> on >> the lower North Tyne valley in Northumberland, there are several >> Wilkinson >> families around but at least one was a major Roman Catholic land-owning >> family in that part of Co Durham and the Hobsons may have had a >> connection >> with the village of Hobson just south of Burnopfield. South Moor (this >> could >> well have originated as "South Langley Moor") Colliery was being worked >> in >> 1894 by "Messrs Hedley & Co". >> >> It could be that the source of the name Langley is "Langley Castle", >> a >> mediaeval house, the remains of which are NW of Witton Gilbert, only a >> few >> miles from Langley Moor as the (mediaeval) crow flies. >> >> Geoff >> Nicholson >> >> >> >> The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at >> http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NORTHUMBRIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> > > > > > The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at > http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NORTHUMBRIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >