Editing High Coniscliffe (section)

==Significant buildings==
[[File:Stables, High Coniscliffe - geograph.org.uk - 131285.jpg|thumb|left|Ruined house at Ulnaby Lane junction, now replaced by Lawson's Court]]
Old Hall Farm incorporates a farmhouse, at 23 The Green, whose north-west wing could be a 13th-century [[bastle house]], built as sanctuary during raids from Scotland. Most of the building dates from the 17th century.<ref name="Keystothepast"/> Mill house is considered old but has been restored with a heron [[weather vane]]. The Spotted Dog [[public house|pub]] is named after a [[English Foxhound|foxhound]] called ''Blue Cap'' which won a race at [[Newmarket Racecourse|Newmarket]] for a wager with a stake of 500 [[Guinea (British coin)|guineas]] in 1792.<ref name="WalksleafletNo5"/><ref name="ChesterChronicle11apr08">{{cite web|url=http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/entertainment-chester/restaurants-chester-cheshire/2008/04/11/the-blue-cap-sandiway-into-the-blue-59067-20761648/|last=Dave|first=Fox|date=11 April 2008|title=The Blue Cap, Sandiway – Into the blue|work=Chester Chronicle|access-date=31 March 2010}}</ref> The village's Methodist chapel was built in 1827 where Ulnaby Lane meets the A67, and demolished in the 1940s.<ref name="HCschoolAboutUs"/> There is an old dovecote in the village. The Duke of Wellington pub had a picture of [[Napoleon I|Napoleon]] on its sign from 1975 to 1988.<ref name="WalksleafletNo5"/> The pub's car park is the site of the old post office which doubled as the [[hackney carriage]] station, and where an [[Elizabethan era|Elizabethan]] stone [[sundial]] was found in the garden. It was near the old golf club and opposite the [[Methodism|Methodist]] chapel at the southern end of Ulnaby Lane.<ref name="HCschoolAboutUs"/> A recent development of twelve houses called Lawson's Court was built in the village in 2009. following the closure of Lawson's Garage.The Duke of Wellington closed in 2010 to become a domestic home with 2 new Houses built in the car-park.<ref name="Lawsonscourtphoto">{{cite web|url=http://www.kebbell.co.uk/lawsons/index.html |title=Kebbell Homes |year=2009 |work=Lawson's Court |access-date=3 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101010141626/http://www.kebbell.co.uk/lawsons/index.html |archive-date=10 October 2010 }}</ref>

===St Edwin's church, vicarage and hall===
[[File:High Coniscliffe 005.jpg|thumb|right|St Edwin's church]]
[[File:High Coniscliffe 037.jpg|thumb|right|Church hall (old school house)]]
The church is dedicated to [[Edwin of Northumbria]], who declared himself ''overking'' of all England and converted to Christianity on 11 April 627&nbsp;[[Anno Domini|AD]].<ref name="Simpson09">{{cite web|url=http://www.englandsnortheast.co.uk/KingdomofNorthumbria.html|title=Anglo-Saxon and Viking Northumbria (400–1066)|last=Simpson|first=David|date=1991–2009|work=History of Northumbria: Anglo-Saxon era 450AD-866AD: Edwin's conversion to Christianity|access-date=6 April 2010}}</ref> It is thought that there could have been an earlier church on the site;<ref name="Keystothepast"/> the present St Edwin's church dates from 1170. It is built of limestone, it is dedicated to [[Edwin of Northumbria]] and has a [[Norman architecture|Norman]] carved and arched doorway under the north porch. It has a nave, chancel, north aisle, square tower and octagonal spire. The [[battlement|embattled]] tower was built between the Norman and [[Middle Ages|medieval]] eras. The chancel arch is [[English Gothic architecture|Gothic]], and supported on [[Corbel arch|corbels]] with carved [[Capital (architecture)|capitals]]; the south corbel appears to be Norman. The east window has rich [[stained glass]]. The building was upgraded in the 13th century when the [[spire]] was added, and it was restored in 1892. In that year it was reseated, the floor relaid, and a new screen, altar and tower clock added; all at a cost of £600.<ref name="Whellan1894"/> Another source gives the restoration date as 1844.<ref name="Keystothepast2">{{cite web|url=http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=D258 |title=Keys to the past |year=2010 |work=High Coniscliffe, St Edwin's; church. (High Coniscliffe) |access-date=2 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616201700/http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=D258 |archive-date=16 June 2011 }}</ref> As of 2009 it has a [[stainless steel]] roof.<ref name="WalksleafletNo5"/>

The [[rectory|vicarage]], next to the church and on the edge of the limestone ridge,<ref name="GenukiConiscliffe05"/><ref name="Whellan1894"/> was remodelled around 1850 and is said to contain [[secret passage]]s. It has a well in the garden and a [[coat of arms]] on the exterior wall on the west side of the building.<ref name="WalksleafletNo5"/><ref name="HCschoolAboutUs"/> In 1848 the vicar had the benefit of the vicarage, a [[glebe]] of {{convert|60|acre|km2}} and local [[tithe]]s to the value of £7 18s 1½d. The glebe may be associated with the [[ridge and furrow]] field to the north of the village.<ref name="DictionaryofEngland1848"/> The church hall was built of stone and slate in 1830 as a school, and it has a later, flat-roofed extension.<ref name="TeesValleyVillageHalls"/> It was the village school until the early 1960s, then was renovated in 2000 with a grant of £57,000 from Cleartop, a waste management company. [[Low Coniscliffe]] and [[Merrybent]] share the hall with High Coniscliffe.<ref name="NorthernEcho19oct10">{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-19117357.html|title=Encyclopedia.com|date=19 October 2000|work=Northern Echo: 57,000 cash grant to repair village hall|access-date=6 April 2010}}</ref>