Winston, County Durham

Winston
Winston
	A village street in Winston
	Winston Location within County Durham
Population	431 (Including Wakerfield.2011)
OS grid reference	NZ140167
Unitary authority	County Durham;
Ceremonial county	County Durham;
Region	North East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Darlington
Postcode district	DL2
Police	Durham
Fire	County Durham and Darlington
Ambulance	North East
UK Parliament	Bishop Auckland;
	List of places UK England County Durham 54°32′45″N 1°47′03″W / 54.54572°N 1.78419°W

Winston is a village and civil parish in County Durham, England. It is situated approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Barnard Castle, on a crossroads between the A67 and B6274 roads. According to the 2011 UK Census the population was 431, the parish includes 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.^[2]

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^[3] and North Tees.^[4] The Teesside colliery closed in August 1938, and North Tees in January 1966, before closure North Tees employed 60 men.^[5]

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. The hamlet of Winston Gate on the south side of the bridge was the location of the former barriers and toll booths. 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 (34 m). 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.^[6]

Governance

Winston was part of the local government district of Teesdale from 1974 before it was abolished as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England. For the purposes of Durham County Council elections, Winston is located in the Barnard Castle East ward.

The village lies within the Bishop Auckland parliamentary constituency, which is under the control of the Conservative Party. The current Member of Parliament, since the 2019 general election, is Dehenna Davison.

Community and culture

The Anglican St. Andrew's Church, a grade I listed building, dates back to the 13th century, although it went under extensive restoration in 1848.^[7] The village was also home to a Methodist chapel, opened in 1902 and holding its final service in September 2016.^[8]

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.^[9]

Notable people

Birthplace of Thomas Wharton (anatomist), on 31 August 1614 ^[10]
Birthplace of Aaron Arrowsmith, cartographer ^[11]

References

^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 6 July 2015.
^ "Disused Stations: Winston Station". disused-stations.org.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
^ "Durham Mining Museum - Tees Side Colliery". www.dmm.org.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
^ "Durham Mining Museum - North Tees Colliery". www.dmm.org.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
^ "Village where coal was king". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
^ "Flying back to day Ray Hanna piloted Spitfire under Winston Bridge". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
^ Historic England. "CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, Winston (1160127)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
^ "Proposal to convert village chapel into two houses". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
^ "A gentle ramble around Winston when it was an important village on the coal road". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
^ "Thomas Wharton". www.whonamedit.com. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
^ "Aaron Arrowsmith | British geographer and cartographer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 7 June 2020.

External links

Media related to Winston, County Durham at Wikimedia Commons

[1] "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 6 July 2015.

[2] "Disused Stations: Winston Station". disused-stations.org.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2020.

[3] "Durham Mining Museum - Tees Side Colliery". www.dmm.org.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2020.

[4] "Durham Mining Museum - North Tees Colliery". www.dmm.org.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2020.

[5] "Village where coal was king". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 7 June 2020.

[6] "Flying back to day Ray Hanna piloted Spitfire under Winston Bridge". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 7 June 2020.

[7] Historic England. "CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, Winston (1160127)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 7 June 2020.

[8] "Proposal to convert village chapel into two houses". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 7 June 2020.

[9] "A gentle ramble around Winston when it was an important village on the coal road". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 7 June 2020.

[10] "Thomas Wharton". www.whonamedit.com. Retrieved 7 June 2020.

[11] "Aaron Arrowsmith | British geographer and cartographer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 7 June 2020.

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v t e Civil parishes in County Durham
including Stockton-on-Tees (north of the river)
Darlington	Parishes Archdeacon Newton Barmpton Bishopton Brafferton Coatham Mundeville Denton East and West Newbiggin Great Burdon Great Stainton Heighington High Coniscliffe Houghton le Side Hurworth Killerby Little Stainton Low Coniscliffe and Merrybent Middleton St. George Morton Palms Neasham Piercebridge Sadberge Summerhouse Walworth Whessoe Unparished areas The former Darlington County Borough
County Durham	Towns Barnard Castle Bishop Auckland Chilton Ferryhill Great Aycliffe Greater Willington Peterlee Seaham Sedgefield Shildon Spennymoor Stanley Tow Law Parishes Barforth Barningham Bearpark Belmont Bishop Middleham Bolam Boldron Bournmoor Bowes Bradbury and the Isle Brancepeth Brandon and Byshottles Brignall Burnhope Cassop-cum-Quarrington Castle Eden City of Durham Cleatlam Cockfield Cornforth Cornsay Cotherstone Coxhoe Croxdale and Hett Dalton-le-Dale Dene Valley Easington Colliery Easington Village Edmondbyers Edmondsley Eggleston Egglestone Abbey Eldon Esh Etherley Evenwood and Barony Fishburn Forest and Frith Framwellgate Moor Gainford Gilmonby Great Lumley Greencroft Hamsterley Hamsterley Common Haswell Hawthorn Headlam Healeyfield Hedleyhope Hilton Holwick Hope Horden Hunderthwaite Hunstanworth Hutton Henry and Station Town Hutton Magna Ingleton Kelloe Kimblesworth and Plawsworth Lanchester Langleydale and Shotton Langton Lartington Little Lumley Lunedale Lynesack and Softley Marwood Mickleton Middleton in Teesdale Middridge Monk Hesleden Mordon Morton Tinmouth Muggleswick Murton Nesbitt Newbiggin North Lodge Ouston Ovington Pelton Pittington Raby with Keverstone Rokeby Romaldkirk Sacriston Satley Scargill Seaton with Slingley Shadforth Sheraton with Hulam Sherburn Village Shincliffe Shotton South Bedburn South Hetton Staindrop Stanhope Startforth Streatlam and Stainton Thornley Toft Hill Trimdon Trimdon Foundry Urpeth Waldridge Wackerfield Weather Hill Wood West Auckland West Rainton and Leamside Westwick Wheatley Hill Whorlton Windlestone Wingate Winston Witton Gilbert Witton-le-Wear Wolsingham Wolsingham Park Moor Woodland Wycliffe with Thorpe Unparished areas The former Chester le Street Urban District Consett Parts of the former Durham Municipal Borough Parts of the former Bishop Auckland Urban District Crook and Willington Urban District Stanley Urban District
Hartlepool	Towns Headland Parishes Brierton Claxton Dalton Piercy Elwick Greatham Hart Newton Bewley Wynyard Unparished areas Part of the former Hartlepool County Borough
Stockton-on-Tees	Towns Billingham Parishes Aislaby Carlton Egglescliffe Elton Grindon and Thorpe Thewles Longnewton Newsham Preston-on-Tees Redmarshall Stillington and Whitton Wolviston Wynyard Unparished areas Part of the former Teesside County Borough
For further information about the above parishes, see List of civil parishes in County Durham. For the part of Stockton-on-Tees (borough) south of the River Tees, see List of civil parishes in North Yorkshire.