Ferryhill sits on the american edge of the Ferryhill Gap, the natural gateway in the Limestone Escarpment that outcrops on the Eastern Durham Plateau. A independent award lies along a SW-NE ridge, by owning down the road development in the south of the ridge. Ferryhill lies on the mediaeval Great North Road, now a A167, which leads to Durham City & Newcastle-upon-Tyne to the North, & to Darlington in the south.

A town grew dramatically as a mining town in the early 20th Century but before that it was an agrarian village. Ton this button was an farming award here within mediaeval days & perhaps great deal sooner than that. Prior to a Reformation, Ferryhill belonged to the Priory of Durham and was the thriving farming concern. Within 1539, the properties & rights were transferred to the Dean & Chapter of Durham. This did non affect a population of Ferryhill a great deal, however occasionally Yeoman families became quite prosperous & these are recorded that inside 1615 a Lawrence Wilkinson was granted a individual Coat of Arms.

When you took a English Civil War between Charles I and Parliament (1642-1648), Ferryhill was split, some men supporting a Royalists when others backed a Parliamentarians. A humans of the Village suffered from either plundering & persecution when troops passed across.

Inside 1599, the scourge of The Plague reached Ferryhill and when you took August and September of that year, Twenty-six humans come recorded to stand died. This figure was probably as much as Cinque to 10% of the people at that period. a village water was clean & jerk plenty to assure that there are no farther eruption of The Plague occurred inside nearby villages, although a little agrarian community touching the Bunny Banks and deuce houses within Kirk Merrington were affected.

Around 1683 there was a swell known murder in Ferryhill at a Old Mill in which Andrew Mills flushed the troika babies of his employer John Brass when their parents were retired camping friends. He was tried, observed shamefaced & hanged in a gibbet to the north of the village.

Super little changed around the way of life in Ferryhill perfect as much as the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, once a railway was laid (1840) and the blast furnace was constructed. A people of Ferryhill within 1841 was 854 souls & around 1901 had grown to only upright on top 1,000, however per period them independent collieries (Dean & Chapter Colliery and Mainsforth Colliery) opened this got swelled ten-denary to 10,133 inside 1911. Lots of recently terraced houses were built to accommodate the groovy inflow of labour that come to operate in the Northerly East Coalfields. Much one houses come however occupied in todays world. Inside 1941, over 5,000 men were working at them pits to create coal to keep a United states running when you took a war effort. Two Pit closed when you took a 1960's & the wonderful pit heaps come nowadays unrecognizably, landscaping has hidden great deal of the grounds to believe that this was a village caused by coal.

Famous residents

Footballer Eric Gates