Editing Castleside

{{Short description|Village in County Durham, England}}
{{Use British English|date=December 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}}
[[File:Castleside, County Durham.jpg|thumb|300 px|right|Looking north-east over Castleside]]

{{Infobox UK place 
|country = England
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|coordinates = {{coord|54.833|-1.879|display=inline,title}}
|official_name      = Castleside
| population = 1,654
| population_ref = (2008)
| civil_parish = [[Healeyfield]]
 |unitary_england = [[County Durham]]
|lieutenancy_england = [[County Durham]]
|region = North East England
|constituency_westminster = [[North Durham (UK Parliament constituency)|North Durham]]
|post_town = CONSETT
|postcode_district = DH8
|postcode_area = DH
|dial_code = 01207
|os_grid_reference = NZ078488
}}
'''Castleside''' is a village in [[County Durham]], England.<ref name=OS88>{{cite map|title=Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 88 ''Newcastle upon Tyne (Durham & Sunderland)''|ISBN= 9780319229989 |publisher=Ordnance Survey|date=2012}}</ref>
<ref name=OSGaz50>{{cite web|url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html|title=Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer|format=csv (download)|date= 1 January 2016|publisher=Ordnance Survey|website=ordnancesurvey.co.uk|accessdate=30 January 2016}}</ref> It is situated a short distance to the south-west of [[Consett]]. Castleside is covered by the [[civil parish]] of [[Healeyfield]].The village centre is located on the main A68 road which runs between Edinburgh and [[Darlington]] and the village crossroads allow easy access to Consett via the A692 to the east via Moorside, and the North Pennines and [[Stanhope, County Durham|Stanhope]] via an unclassified road to the west via [[Waskerley]] crossing ''Waskerley Moor''.  To the northeast lie other small villages called ''Moorside'' and [[The Grove, County Durham|The Grove]].

[[Rowley]] sits to the south on the [[A68 road (Great Britain)|A68]] and [[Allensford]] is situated to the north on the same road.   [[Muggleswick]] is 3 miles to the north west as, a bit further at 5 miles, is [[Derwent Reservoir (North East England)|Derwent Reservoir]] and [[Edmundbyers]].

The parish church, dedicated to St John, was designed by [[Ewan Christian]] and is a reproduction of a church he had seen and admired while on holiday in Switzerland. The church was consecrated on 7 March 1867.

[[File:St John the Evangelist Church, Castleside - geograph.org.uk - 3728451.jpg|thumb|300 px|right|St. John the Evangelist Church, Castleside]]

There was a Wesleyan Chapel at Watergate, Castleside, which was erected in 1805.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Whelan |first=William |title=History, topography, and directory of the county palatine of Durham |publisher=Whittaker |year=1856 |pages=908}}</ref> The chapel was extended in 1877<ref>{{Cite book |title=Kelly's Directory of Durham |year=1890 |pages=49}}</ref> and closed in 1970.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Durham at War |url=https://www.durhamatwar.org.uk/story/3087/}}</ref> A Primitive Methodist chapel was erected in 1843 on the Consett Road, and extended in 1884.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Kelly's Directory of Durham |year=1890 |pages=49}}</ref> It closed in the 1990s and is now a residence.<ref>{{Cite web |title=My Primitive Methodists |url=https://www.myprimitivemethodists.org.uk/content/chapels/county-durham-2/a-d-county-durham-2/consett-consett-road-pm-chapel-castleside-co-durham}}</ref>

In the nearby dwelling of Wharnley Burn is a 14th-century cottage and was home to the [[Moss-trooper|moss trooper]] Thomas Raw (d. 1714). He was buried in a field near his home believing he could not be buried in a church. In the early 1860s the grave was opened and the grave slab removed, supposedly to [[Satley]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Neasham|first=George|title=North-country sketches, notes, essays and reviews|year=1893|pages=292–294}}</ref>   The dwelling shares the name with ''Wharnley Burn'' (also called Watergate Burn) that runs along the south west side of Castleside in a steep valley containing ''Castleside Woods''. The burn or stream continues northwest before joining the [[River Derwent, North East England|River Derwent]] west of [[Allensford]] just after ''Wharnley Burn Waterfall''.

[[File:Castleside Woods.jpg|thumb|300 px|right|Wharnley or Watergate Burn (David's Bridge – nomenclature unknown), Castleside Woods.]]

The A692 road to Consett, running north east, leads to the small villages of Moorside and The Grove. 

'''Moorside''' is a large post-World War II housing estate. It was originally the lands of Consett Park mentioned in 1352  as "half of the manor of Conkesbeved, excepting the park of Conkesheved [now Consett Park]". (Conkesheved being the name for Consett). The manor of Consett and the park of Consett seem to have been two separate entities. The "park of Consett", in 1437, was leased to Henry Vasey. It is unclear who held the lands later, however in the 1850s Consett Park had been owned by the Rippon family for over 200 years, acquired in 1635 by Charles Rippon.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fawcett |first=J.W. |date=1922 |title=The manor of Consett |journal=Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne |volume=10 (3rd. series) |issue=27 |pages=345–48}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Fordyce |first=William |title=The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham |year=1857 |pages=703}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Surtees |first=Robert |title=The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham: Volume 2, Chester Ward |year=1820 |pages=284–297}}</ref>

A row of terraced housing was built (1896–1900) on the brow of the hill and called Consett Park Terrace.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fawcett |first=J.W. |date=1925 |title=The Township of Knitsley, Co. Durham |journal=Archaeologia Aeliana |volume=1 (ser. 4) |pages=37 |doi=10.5284/1059802}}</ref> The housing estate was built after the Second World War with the streets named after English counties. A second phase of building took places in the 1950s including the building of a Roman Catholic church, St Pius X, built in 1954 to designs by the local architect Anthony Joseph Rossi (1916–1971).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pevsner |first=Nicholas |title=The buildings of England: Durham |year=2002 |edition=2nd |pages=132}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Taking Stock: Catholic Churches of England and Wales |url=https://taking-stock.org.uk/building/consett-st-pius/}}</ref> The church was demolished in 2009 and replaced by a smaller church in the same year. As part of the 1950s building phase, the buildings of Consett Park were demolished. They were located near the intersection of Sussex Road and Surrey Crescent.

A light industrial estate was established in 1950 in the Castleside/Moorside area.<ref>Consett Urban District Council. Report 1950. p. 5</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Castleside}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110813054211/http://castlesideandhealeyfield.co.uk/ Healeyfield Parish Council]

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[[Category:Villages in County Durham]]