Stanley Crook

[paul1801]

Hi all,

has anyone any idea how I can find out where how to locate a house in about 1915.
I have ancestors living in "Hill Top, Stanley Crook" County Durham.

I have looked at maps from abt 1880 to 1915 but none show any names similar to this, any one else seen this name before?

Paul

[Squaredancer]

I googled "hill top" "stanley crook" (exactly like that) & think I found the place, but not in 1915 I'm afraid. It looks like it's for sale, so if you've got £1,200,000 to spare... :)

[Geoffers]

See the above message for a more immediate answer - a longer way about it would be to use the records created as a result of the Finance Act 1910 and now held in The National Archives at Kew. Basically this was the largest valuation survey since Domesday, detailing houses and owners in Field Books (TNA document class IR58) and associated Valuation office Record Maps in document class IR121. From memory the maps are at drawn at 1:1250 scale.

[Angewozere]

there is a public house called Hilltop in Stanley but as far as I am aware it has never been called stanley crook Although there is an area near durham city called crook

[racing girl]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Stanley Crook is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated to the north of Crook and Billy Row. It is a small former mining village which used to have two collieries. During the 1970s, the village was classified as category D, which meant the council wished to demolish the whole village. However, this did not happen, only 3 streets were demolished.

Until the 1850s, the area was open moorland. It was not until Viscount Boyne of Brancepeth Castle, leased the mineral rights to Joseph Pease and Company that mining operations began. The first colliery was Stanley Pit then Wooley Colliery.

The name of the village comes from Stanley Hall, a medieval farm on the hill top to the north of the village. The area now known as Stanley Crook was originally known as Mount Pleasant, which, along with Wooley, was originally a separate village. During the 1870s, the Church of England wished to build a church for the village. The village was part of the Parish of Brancepeth. When the village was separated from Brancepeth, the Church of England gave it the name of Stanley Crook, the Crook being added to differentiate it from Stanley in Derwentside.

The village has a BMX track and a football pitch, which until recently was home to Stanley United, one of England's oldest football clubs (who now play at Peases West). A park and a new housing estate is currently being built.

The village's other facilities include a post office and general store, primary school, a community centre, a petrol station, a public house, a small garden centre, a Methodist church and the Church of England's Church of St Thomas. There is also a monument to World War II.

The area is rural, surrounded by open farm land and woodland. There are several farms and many small holdings. Population 2,986