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Events in History COXHOE eventsNo known Roman settlement in village though Cades Road runs through the parish.

Henry III dies and is succeeded by his son Edward 1272

Edward I dies and is succeeded by his son Edward II 1307

Edward II is murdered and Edward III becomes King 1327

Edward III dies and is Succeeded by Richard II 1377

Henry IV is proclaimed king of England 1399

Henry IV dies and is succeeded by his son, Henry V 1413

Henry VI is king of Eng & France before his first birthday 1422

Lancastrians are defeated at Towton & Edward IV becomes king 1461

Henry VI restored to the throne 1470

Edward IV dies, his 12 year old son is king 1483Richard III becomes king & the ‘Princes in the Tower’ disappear

Henry Tudor defeats Richard III at the ‘Battle of Bosworth’ 1485

Henry VII dies & is followed by Henry VIII 1509

Henry VIII dies, nine year old Edward VI succeeds 1547

Edward VI dies and Lady Jane Grey succeeds 1553Mary, a Catholic, becomes queen

1235 Coxhoe settlement developed. Coxhoe owned by Monks of Finchale. Cornmill on Coxhoe Beck south of Coxhoe Wood

1300-1418 William Blakison Knight died, passing Coxhoe village, Manor Hse to brother Nicholas. Water mill & toft property of Finchale.

1327 John Denham mining coal

1400 Coxhoe Manor House built1410 - 30 Coxhoe Settlement thought to be deserted

1495 Limestone quarrying

1500 -1600 Coxhoe Manor House rebuilt

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Mary dies & Elizabeth I gets the throne 1558

Elizabeth I dies and James VI of Scotland is on the throne 1603

James I dies and Charles I accedes the throne 1625

Charles 1 v Cromwell, King against Parliament 1642

Charles I is executed at Whitehall, London 1649

Charles II is on the throne 1660 Silk, sugar, tobacco- trade overseas.

Great Fire of London 1666

Isaac Newton 1667

Charles II dies & James II accedes to the throne 1685

William & Mary are proclaimed King & Queen 16891695 Small scale mining

People more numerate 1700

William III dies & Anne accedes to the throne 1702

Anne dies & George I sits on the throne 1714

Sir Robert Warpole is first prime minister 1721

George I dies & is succeeded by George II 1727 1725 Coxhoe Hall built by J Burdon Esq

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George II is followed by his grandson George III 1770Lord North , prime minister

William Pitt the Younger, prime minister 1783

1742 Turnpike Road from Stockton – Durham replacing Roman Rd. Hamlet grew around toll gate known as Blackgate. Old village near Hall fallen into disuse. Boring for coal in Coxhoe.1769 Coxhoe Pottery owned by Lammas family in operation.

1791 “Blue Bell Pub” on the turnpike road.

Abolition of slave trade. 1807

Boer war 1809 – 1902

Invention of the safety lamp. 1815

George III dies & is succeeded by George IV 1820

Professional police introduced by Robert Peel 1829

George IV dies & is succeeded by his brother William IV 1830

Victoria is crowned after the death of William IV 1837

1801 27 houses in Coxhoe, population 117.

1816 Cornforth Pottery established

1825 William Hedley opened Crow Trees Colliery near Quarrington Hill.

1827 Bells Pit sunk near Park Hill estate, owner John Bell

1833 Clarence Railway

1831 2 blacksmiths in operation, population 154

1834 Coxhoe railway opened. Crow Trees Colliery

1835 Coxhoe Colliery at Joint Stocks. Also Kelloe Pit

1837 Garmondsway & W Hetton started to produce coal

1838 Cornforth Colliery sunk, close to Coxhoe bridge

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Viscount Melbourne, prime minister resigns 1839

Prime minister Sir Robert Peel resigns after Corn Laws are repealed 1846

1839 Clarence Hetton – Clay Hole Colliery nr Steetley football field.

1840 Bowburn Pit nr Kicking Cuddy. Long Row built by Iron Company. Later rebuilt 1903

1841 Bowburn Colliery & Steetly Quarry commenced operation. Heugh Hall Colliery. There were 816 hses in Coxhoe. Population 3, 904

1844 Colliery sank at South Kelloe

1845 Quarrying at Raisby Hill Garmondsway for limestone.

1846 Coxhoe Bridge station open near Coxhoe Beck.

1850 Coke Works & Iron Foundry established. Field’s Brickworks at Cow Close, Cornforth Lane

1851 Clay tobacco pipes manufactured by William Row. Coxhoe population 4,101.

1853 Beehive Coke Ovens near Prospect Place

1856 – 1881 Iron Foundry – behind The Commercial Inn

1864 Goodyear’s Brickworks near Tursdale.

1865 Coxhoe a separate parish from Kelloe & Bishop Middleham, now own church & burial ground.

1866/7 Cholera epidemic, first case 28th Dec. First came to Eng from India 1831 further outbreaks 1848, 1853 then 1866.

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William Gladstone, prime minister 1868

Education made compulsory children up to13-14yrs. 1870

Victoria dies & is succeeded by Edward VII 1901

Arthur Balfour succeeds Lord Salisbury as prime minister 1902

1868 St Mary’s Church built. Church lit by gas

1869 Durham Miners Assoc formed

1870 Coke works & Iron Foundry closed

1871 Coxhoe National School, later Church of England School, closed 1955.

1879 Coxhoe Colliery closed

1877 Trade depression all collieries closed 12mnths

1870 Shops including the Co-op. There were 6 coalmines around Coxhoe.

1873 – 1894 Brickworks – opposite the Kicking Cuddy

1865 Primitive Chapel built

1868 Coxhoe an ecclesiastical parish, St Mary’s Church Consecrated

1870 Primitive Methodist School built

1871 Wesleyan Chapel erected. National School built

1875 Board School, East Hetton built

1881 Coxhoe Colliery closed. Population of Coxhoe 2,454

1902 Blue Row replaced by Front Coronation Terrace.

1903 Long Row rebuilt by Kelloe Colliery Co., demolished 1971

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Herbert Asquith, prime minister 1908

Edward VII dies & is succeeded by George V 1910

Great War 1914-1918

David Lloyd George, prime minister 1922

Stanley Baldwin, prime minister 1923

Ramsey MacDonald, prime minister 1929

Stanley Baldwin, prime minister 1935

George V dies & is succeeded by Edward VIII 1936Edward VIII abdicates & marries Wallace Simpson

George VI is crowned king 1937Neville Chamberlain, prime minister

2nd World War 1939-1945

Winston Churchill, prime minister 1940

Clement Attlee, prime minister 1950

1906 Steetley Basic Works established. Sept- Typhoid traced to milk supply from Paradise Farm. Contaminated water from well used to wash milking utensils.

1908 Bowburn colliery established

1910 Institute, later replaced by larger one, 1932.

1911 Coxhoe population 3,833

1913 Queen Mary passed through Coxhoe

1918 – 1925 Outbreak of Influenza originated in Spain

1922 Village War Memorial from the Great War unvieled

1923 Boiled sweet factory – The Avenue

1925 First electricity

1926 General Strike lasted 8 months

1930 The depression

1938 Coxhoe Hall sold to East Hetton Coal Company

1939 Coxhoe Hall used as military barracks and then as Prisoner of War Camp.

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NHS- access to free healthcare 1949

Elizabeth II succeeds her father, George VI 1952

Sir Anthony Eden, prime minister 1955

Harold Macmillan, prime minister 1957

Alec Douglas-Home, prime minister 1963Harold Wilson, prime minister 1964

Edward Heath, prime minister 1970

James Callaghan, prime minister 1974

Margaret Thatcher, prime minister 1979

Miners strike 1984

John Major, prime minister 1990

Tony Blair 1997

1952 Coxhoe Hall demolished

1967 Thrislington Colliery closed owners Henry Stobart & Co

1981 Steetley Basic works closed and demolished1982 Mining at East Hetton Colliery causes subsidence in the Grove Estate.1983 East Hetton Colliery, Kelloe, closes.1984 Clarence Railway removed.

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