Editing Low Coniscliffe (section)

==History==
[[File:Darlington Cubs and Boy Scouts Low Coniscliffe Durham 1920s.jpg|thumb|left|[[Scouting|Scouts and Cubs]] picnicking possibly at Broken Scar {{circa|1920}}]]
A foundling was abandoned on 31 January 1602 on the window ledge of a house in Nether Cunsley which was occupied by Cuthbert Smith. The child, who lived for 69 years until 21 December 1671, was baptised Tychicus, with no surname.<ref name="HCschoolAboutUs"/> The inhabitants of Thornton Hall were associated with Lowe Coniscliffe.<ref name="SamLewisLowCon1848"/> Sir Francis Bowes, who was born in 1648 and became [[High Sheriff of Northumberland]], lost most of his family during his lifetime and left a memorial to them in the parish church at [[High Coniscliffe]].<ref name="PeileBiogReg1505-1905">{{cite book | last=Peile | first=J. | last2=Venn | first2=J.&nbsp;A. | title=Biographical Register of Christ's College, 1505–1905, and of the Earlier Foundation, God's House, 1448–1505 | publisher=University Press | year=1910 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=woo8AAAAIAAJ|page=608}}</ref> In 1848 the village had 134 inhabitants.<ref name="SamLewisLowCon1848">{{cite book|title='Conhope – Cooknoe', A Topographical Dictionary of England: Low Coniscliffe|editor-first=Samuel |editor-last=Lewis|publisher=Institute of Historical Research|year=1848|pages=679–682|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50894#s7|access-date=6 April 2010}}</ref> Arthur Pease of Darlington gave instructions in 1877 for the building of the [[British and Foreign School Society|British School]] for 105 pupils.<ref name="HCschoolAboutUs">{{cite web|url=http://www.highconiscliffe.darlington.sch.uk/about.htm |title=High Coniscliffe CE Primary School |year=2010 |work=About Us |access-date=2 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305131521/http://www.highconiscliffe.darlington.sch.uk/about.htm |archive-date=5 March 2012 }}</ref> [[Scouting|Scouts and Cubs]] used to come to the banks of the Tees near here in the 1920s for picnics.<ref name="DBCscoutsandcubs">{{cite web|url=http://www.durham-pa.gov.uk/durhamcc/DRE.nsf/DREDetail?readform&IMGID=M10027&KEYWORD=Youth+organisations |title=DBC Leisure and Culture |year=2007 |work=Low Coniscliffe, Darlington Boy Scouts and cubs |access-date=6 April 2010 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>