Cassop (formerly New Cassop) is a village in
County Durham, in
England
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. It has a population of about 500 and is located near the city of
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. A former
mining
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village, mining is no longer the main occupation of Cassop's inhabitants due to extensive
mine closure
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over the last 30 years.
Formerly this village was in the parish of
Kelloe
Kelloe is a village and civil parish in County Durham, England. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 Census was 1,502. It is situated to the south-east of Durham.
History
The village takes its name from the family of Kelloe ...
, but like many of the villages in that extensive parish, it broke away during the 19th century in this case to form the parish of
Cassop-cum-Quarrington, with the neighbouring village,
Quarrington Hill.
Cassop Primary School is believed to have been the first in the UK to generate some of its own electricity with its own
wind turbine
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which was erected in February 1999.
Religious sites
The church of St. Paul, Cassop cum Quarrington was built in 1868. The stones that were used in its construction were allegedly transported by William Smith, innkeeper of the Half Moon Inn,
Quarrington Hill, as he was the only villager to own such a cart to make this possible. It was closed during the 1980s and is now demolished. Services for the parish are held at
Bowburn. The churchyard is still used for burials.
References
External links
Cassop History Society
Villages in County Durham
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