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Quarringtonshire was an ancient district stretching from Sherburn to Tursdale with an Anglo-Saxon name but like other such districts probably had roots going back to earlier Celtic times. The district was still recognised after the Norman Conquest but as a part of the County Durham.
Old Quarrington is a hamlet in County Durham, in England. It is situated between Bowburn and Quarrington Hill. It is also known locally as Heugh Hall, which was the name of a local colliery. [ 1 ] In the Middle Ages, Old Quarrington was the centre of a district of County Durham called “Queringdonshire" (Quarringtonshire), which contained ...
Old Quarrington, in the middle ages, had been the capital of a much larger district, called “Queringdonshire” (or Quarringtonshire), which included North Sherburn, Shadforth, Cassop, Tursdale and Whitwell.
For decades known locally as “Heugh Hall”, after the colliery that was sunk here in the 1830s, this was the capital of mediaeval “Queringdonshire”, which stretched from Sherburn to Tursdale. The township of Quarrington, like that of Cassop, was later part of the parish of Kelloe, which also took in Coxhoe, Wingate and Thornley, and its ...
Jan 29, 2018 · Even the site of the East Hetton slurry lagoons, created by coal washing, has been transformed into a marshland habitat for orchids, newts and hares. Many thanks to Clive Tunstall, George...
Magnesian limestone has been extensively quarried since medieval times, even giving its name to an early medieval shire called Querningdonshire (Quarringtonshire) near Durham where it was seemingly used in the making of quern stones for grinding corn. In more recent ages it has found use as a flux in the chemical industry of Teesside and is of ...
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In 1183, it was the “chief place” of Quarringtonshire, a pre-Norman territorial division. A number of grants of waste land in the 13th century implies growth of the settlement. In 1315, the Earl of Warwickshire held the manor; the capital messuage of 180 acres and a water mill are recorded.
