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Title: Coxhoe Hill - quick question
Post by: steadyrollingman on Sunday 19 January 20 17:59 GMT (UK)

Is that what we now know as Quarrington Hill?

Title: Re: Coxhoe Hill - quick question
Post by: KGarrad on Sunday 19 January 20 18:10 GMT (UK)

Some info here:
http://www.coxhoeparishcouncil.gov.uk/about-coxhoe/coxhoe-and-quarrington-hill-in-the-past/

Are you sure your source says Coxhoe Hill, and not Coxhoe Hall?

Title: Re: Coxhoe Hill - quick question
Post by: steadyrollingman on Sunday 19 January 20 18:21 GMT (UK)

I can guarantee my relatives wouldn't live at the hall :P

I've come across C Hill quite a few times on census and parish records, and my relative is living there in 1871. But when he makes his will in 1873 he is in Q Hill. So yes, he could have moved but that still begs the question of where Coxhoe Hill is? I'm fairly local too, and had never heard of it before...

Title: Re: Coxhoe Hill - quick question
Post by: steadyrollingman on Sunday 19 January 20 18:25 GMT (UK)

If it's wasn't an old name for Q Hill, all I can think is it's the road that you take from the crossroads in Coxhoe if you're going towards Q Hill - it climbs up a bit?

Title: Re: Coxhoe Hill - quick question
Post by: stanmapstone on Monday 20 January 20 09:50 GMT (UK)

In the 1851 Census Coxhoe Hill and Quarrington Hill are separate entries. the census pages are titled village of Coxhoe Hill and village of Quarrington Hill.
Coxhoe Hill starts at HO107; Piece: 2391; Folio: 670; Page: 1
Quarrington Hill starts at HO107; Piece: 2391; Folio: 579; Page: 1
Stan

Title: Re: Coxhoe Hill - quick question
Post by: steadyrollingman on Monday 20 January 20 10:44 GMT (UK)

Thanks Stan, will check this out when I have access later this week. Been pondering this a long time, have forgotten the technicalities. There is still a separate entry just for Coxhoe though, yes? Maybe I can work out from where one ends and the other begins which is which, if any notable buildings are still standing.

Title: Re: Coxhoe Hill - quick question
Post by: stanmapstone on Monday 20 January 20 15:58 GMT (UK)

The description of the enumeration district in 1851 is:

All that part of the Township of Coxhoe comprising the new Joint Stock Rows,  Pit House, ? Hall, South Kelloe Pit and the whole of the houses at Coxhoe Hill


Stan

Title: Re: Coxhoe Hill - quick question
Post by: JTBTW on Saturday 04 April 20 19:27 BST (UK)

Judging by the way the enumerator is travelling in book 7 Joint Stocks, Pescott Hall, Coxhoe Hill, then Quarrington Hill is going to be Coxhoe Hill. The pub the cross keys appears on an old map 1856- 1865 as does the Colliery Inn. Keep in mind that Heugh Hall was / is Old Quarrington. Enumerators often made mistakes.

Title: Re: Coxhoe Hill - quick question
Post by: steadyrollingman on Saturday 04 April 20 21:18 BST (UK)

You must be from the local history group - I got this same response on Facebook, been meaning to update this post :)
But yeah, definitely looks to me like Coxhoe Hill & Quarrington Hill were being used interchangeably for a while...