Old Maps of the Consett area (Pre-1848)

[JenB]

Sadly, Iveston is at least 2 miles from Carr House

Lanchester Parish was sub-divided into 'townships' one of which was Iveston. The township comprised a far wider area than just the village of Iveston - it extended as far as Brooms and Stony Heap, and also down to Boggle Hole, where my ancestors lived. As you can see from the link provided in the previous posting, Carr House was in the Township of Iveston.   

[MollyC]

Townships were largely translated into Civil Parishes during the later 19th century.  They must have entered the 1841 census for Carr House as part of Iviston township as a matter of convenience, but not strictly correctly.  It is the large black italic lettering which denotes the township and the boundary of this detached piece is the dot/dash line along the north side of the road, labelled FW meaning the boundary is at the foot of the wall, plus a short length Und(efined).  Iveston township lies to the south of the wall, with a note that it also has 229 acres of detached portions elsewhere.  (Most of this kind of detached area was "tidied up" by the Divided Parishes Acts from about 1870 onwards.)

[hanes teulu]

Townships were largely translated into Civil Parishes during the later 19th century.  They must have entered the 1841 census for Carr House as part of Iviston township as a matter of convenience, but not strictly correctly.  It is the large black italic lettering which denotes the township and the boundary of this detached piece is the dot/dash line along the north side of the road, labelled FW meaning the boundary is at the foot of the wall, plus a short length Und(efined).  Iveston township lies to the south of the wall, with a note that it also has 229 acres of detached portions elsewhere.  (Most of this kind of detached area was "tidied up" by the Divided Parishes Acts from about 1870 onwards.)

If you check the Tithe map, 1840, Iveston is recorded as the Parish.

[Elliven]

JenB, MollyC and hanes teleu,

That really does surprise me!  And that is the second time I have been caught out by detached areas in parishes.

Thanks to all of you for pointing out my mistake.

[MollyC]

As Lanchester parish was more than 46,000 acres its tithe award may have been divided into sections.  Iveston village is near the foot of this map sheet and I cannot see a church there.  The Ordnance Survey was usually spot-on in recording all these boundaries and acreages, but many relate to medieval landholdings which had become irrelevant by the 19th century and could not be altered until the law was changed. 

The 1828 reference is to a directory, which not being an official publication, probably took a pragmatic view about where to list businesses.

[JenB]

There was certainly, at some time, a Methodist Church in Iveston, but there was never an Anglican Church. All my Reed ancestors of Boggle Hole were baptised and buried at the parish church at Lanchester.

Edit: I had better correct myself and say that many were buried at Lanchester, but a couple were buried at Leadgate and one at Dipton.