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 > > >