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Mid Durham (UK Parliament Constituency)
Mid Durham was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election from 1885 to 1918. History Creation The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, when the North Durham (UK Parliament constituency), North Durham and South Durham (UK Parliament constituency), South Durham county divisions were replaced by eight new single-member county constituencies. These were Barnard Castle (UK Parliament constituency), Barnard Castle, Bishop Auckland (UK Parliament constituency), Bishop Auckland, Chester-le-Street (UK Parliament constituency), Chester-le-Street, Houghton-le-Spring (UK Parliament constituency), Houghton-le-Spring, Jarrow (UK Parliament constituency), Jarrow, Mid Durham, North West Durham (UK Parliament constituency), North West Durham and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North West Durham (UK Parliament Constituency)
North West Durham was a List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament. The seat was abolished for the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 general election and replaced by parts of four new constituencies. Constituency profile The constituency was in the northwest of County Durham, in the North East England region. It consisted of the western part of the former Derwentside district (including Consett and Lanchester, County Durham, Lanchester) and the northern part of the former Wear Valley district (including Weardale, Crook, County Durham, Crook, and Willington, County Durham, Willington). The majority of the electorate lived in former mining or steel towns, where Labour traditionally have polled higher than other parties, with the remainder being in rural farms and villages throughout valleys cleft from the eastern, rocky p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1890 Mid Durham By-election
The 1890 Mid Durham by-election A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, or a bypoll in India, is an election used to fill an office that has become vacant between general elections. A vacancy may arise as a result of an incumben ... was held on 17 July 1890 after the death of the incumbent Liberal-Labour MP William Crawford. The seat was retained by the Liberal-Labour candidate John Wilson. References {{By-elections to the 24th UK Parliament Durham, Mid July 1890 1890 elections in the United Kingdom 1890 in England 19th century in County Durham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two Major party, major List of political parties in the United Kingdom, political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party, in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Beginning as an alliance of Whigs (British political party), Whigs, free trade–supporting Peelites, and reformist Radicals (UK), Radicals in the 1850s, by the end of the 19th century, it had formed four governments under William Ewart Gladstone. Despite being divided over the issue of Irish Home Rule, the party returned to government in 1905 and won a landslide victory in the 1906 United Kingdom general election, 1906 general election. Under Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, prime ministers Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1905–1908) and H. H. Asquith (1908–1916), the Liberal Party passed Liberal welfare reforms, reforms that created a basic welfare state. Although Asquith was the Leader of the Liberal Party (UK), party leader, its domin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Crawford (Durham Politician)
William Crawford (1833 – 1 July 1890) was an English miner, trade unionist, and a Liberal politician. Crawford was born at Cullercoats Northumberland Northumberland ( ) is a ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in North East England, on the Anglo-Scottish border, border with Scotland. It is bordered by the North Sea to the east, Tyne and Wear and County Durham to the south, Cumb ... and worked in Hartley Coal Mines from the age of 10. In 1862 he actively opposed the attempt of the Northumberland mine owners to impose the system of yearly hiring. He became Secretary of the Durham Miners' Association in 1863, and spoke frequently at the Durham Miner's Gala He was briefly secretary of the breakaway Northumberland Miners' Mutual Confident Association. In 1885 Crawford was elected Member of Parliament for Mid Durham and held the seat until his death aged 57. From 1889 to 1890 he was a member of the Institute of Mining Engineers. Crawford was a chief promoter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1885 United Kingdom General Election
The 1885 United Kingdom general election was held from 24 November to 18 December 1885. The first general election after an Representation of the People Act 1884, extension of the franchise and Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, redistribution of seats, it saw the Liberal Party (UK), Liberals lose their majority. The election saw the Liberals, led by William Ewart Gladstone, William Gladstone, win the most seats, but not an overall majority, so a minority government was necessary. The Irish Nationalists held the balance of power between the Liberals and the Conservatives who sat with a large number of allied Unionist MPs (their name referred to their support for the Acts of Union 1800, Union of Great Britain and Ireland). The pressure of minority government status exacerbated divisions within the Liberals over Irish Home Rule. This led to a Liberal split that caused another 1886 United Kingdom general election, general election the following year. The 1885 election saw the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferryhill
Ferryhill is a towns in England, town and civil parish in County Durham (district), County Durham, England, with an estimated population in 2018 of 9,362. The town grew in the 1900s around the coal mining industry. The last mine officially closed in 1968. It is located between the towns of Bishop Auckland, Newton Aycliffe, Sedgefield, Shildon, Spennymoor and the cathedral city of Durham, England, Durham. Geography Ferryhill sits on the western edge of the Ferryhill Gap, a natural gateway in limestone escarpment that outcrops on the Eastern Durham Plateau. The main settlement lies along the 'SW-NE' ridge, with later developments made to the south of the ridge. Ferryhill lies on the medieval Great North Road (United Kingdom), Great North Road, which used to be the A1. It was bypassed when the Ferryhill Cut was excavated in 1923. The road is now the A167, which leads to Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne to the North, and to Darlington in the south. The Carrs, Ferryhill Carrs is a S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willington, County Durham
Willington is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Greater Willington, in County Durham and the ceremonial county of Durham, England. Willington stands in the foothills of the Pennines and near the River Wear close to Crook, Bishop Auckland and Durham. Like many communities in the area Willington's economy was largely based on coal mining. The closure of the colliery in 1967 therefore affected the local economy. Governance Willington is in the electoral ward of Willington and Hunwick. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 9,147. Willington was formerly a township and chapelry in the parish of Brancepeth, from 1866 Willington was a civil parish in its own right, on 1 April 1937 the parish was abolished to form Crook and Willington, part also went to Bishop Auckland. In 1931 that parish had a population of 6644. Leisure facilities' There are large areas of parkland with play areas in the town. A leisure centre existed in the village, Spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandon, County Durham
Brandon is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated a short distance to the southwest of Durham, England, Durham. Brandon was originally one of the seven townships within the ancient parish of Brancepeth, County Durham, Brancepeth. It grew from a sparsely populated agricultural area into a populous mining district after the establishment of collieries and later Coke (fuel), coke and fireclay works. Until the 19th century Brandon village, formerly known as East Brandon, was one of the larger settlements in Brancepeth Parish. History Brandon was also a Manorialism, manor of the medieval lordship of Brancepeth and as such was possessed by the Baron Neville de Raby, Neville family, the Earl of Westmorland, Earls of Westmoreland, while Holywell, Langley, Littleburn and other such localities were the sites of large freehold gentry houses. The Northern Rising After the Northern Rising of 1569, Elizabeth I of England, Elizabeth I confiscated Brancepeth Castle and its territor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witton Gilbert
Witton Gilbert is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in County Durham, England. Geography Witton Gilbert is situated about to the north-west of Durham, England, Durham. River Browney passes to the south of the village, while Dene Burn, one of its tributaries, runs through it. Parts of the Prior of Durham's Park of Bearpark, Beaurepaire are within the bounds of Witton Gilbert. The village once had a Witton Gilbert railway station, railway station on the Lanchester Valley Line, but this was closed in the early 1960s, with passenger service withdrawn in the late 1930s. However, the station building survives as a private residence, along with one of the platforms. The former railway line has been turned into a foot and cycle path and is part of National Cycle Route 14. History There is archaeological evidence of the area having been populated in the late Neolithic and in the Bronze Age periods. A small Roman Britain, Roman settlement at Crookton across the River ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1918 United Kingdom General Election
The 1918 United Kingdom general election was called immediately after the Armistice with Germany which ended the First World War, and was held on Saturday, 14 December 1918. The governing coalition, under Prime Minister David Lloyd George, sent letters of endorsement to candidates who supported the coalition government. These were nicknamed " Coalition Coupons", and led to the election being known as the "coupon election". The result was a massive landslide in favour of the coalition, comprising primarily the Conservatives and Coalition Liberals, with massive losses for Liberals who were not endorsed. Nearly all the Liberal MPs without coupons were defeated, including party leader H. H. Asquith. It was the first general election to be held after enactment of the Representation of the People Act 1918. It was thus the first election in which women over the age of 30 (with some property qualifications), and all men over the age of 21, could vote. Previously, all women and many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipal Borough Of Durham
Durham and Framwelgate was a municipal borough with the status of city in County Durham, England. The corporation of the ancient borough of Durham and Framwelgate was reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. The borough was abolished in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 The Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales on 1 April 1974. It was one of the most significant acts of Parliament to be passed by the Heath Gov .... Its former area was merged with Brandon and Byshottles Urban District and Durham Rural District, to become the new City of Durham non-metropolitan district. References {{reflist Districts of England abolished by the Local Government Act 1972 History of County Durham History of Durham, England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
