Trimdon, Durham

Description
Trimdon, a village and a parish in Durham, on the Hartlepool and Ferryhill railway, 6 miles E of Ferryhill. The parish comprises Trimdon Grange and Trimdon Colliery. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.) of the name of Trimdon Grange. Acreage, 2494; population, 4136; of the ecclesiastical parish, 2328. There is a parish council consisting of fifteen members. There are limestone quarries and lime kilns. The manor belongs to the Beckwith family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; net value, £206. The church is an ancient building in the Norman style, and was restored in 1887. There are a mission church erected in 1886, Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, the latter rebuilt in 1892, and a temperance hall, erected in 1888, at Trimdon Grange. There are also a Roman Catholic church, a chapel for Christian Lay Brethren, built in 1891, and two police stations. Trimdon colliery is included in the ecclesiastical parish of Deaf Hill with Langdale.