Witton Park is a village in

County Durham County Durham ( ), officially simply Durham,UK General Acts 1997 c. 23Lieutenancies Act 1997 Schedule 1(3). From legislation.gov.uk, retrieved 6 April 2022. is a ceremonial county in North East England.North East Assembly �About North East E ...

, in England. It is situated to the west of

Bishop Auckland Bishop Auckland () is a market town and civil parish at the confluence of the River Wear and the River Gaunless in County Durham, northern England. It is northwest of Darlington and southwest of Durham. Much of the town's early history surro ...

. In 2001 it had a population of 384.

Famous people born in Witton Park

* Brigadier General

Roland Boys Bradford Brigadier (United Kingdom), Brigadier-General Roland Boys Bradford, Victoria Cross, VC, Military Cross, MC (23 February 1892 – 30 November 1917) was a British Army officer and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for ga ...

VC—youngest ever Brigadier General in the British Army at 25 (see the Bradford Brothers website for more information) * Hebrew scholar Thomas Witton Davies raised and educated in Witton Park *

Henry Bolckow Henry William Ferdinand Bolckow, originally Heinrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Bölckow, (8 December 1806 – 18 June 1878) was a Victorian industrialist and Member of Parliament, acknowledged as being one of the founders of modern Middlesbrough. In a ...

, the German partner of

Bolckow Vaughan Bolckow, Vaughan & Co., Ltd was an English steelmaking, ironmaking and mining company founded in 1864, based on the partnership since 1840 of its two founders, Henry Bolckow and John Vaughan (ironmaster), John Vaughan. The firm drove the dramat ...

became a Member of Parliament as did Witton Park (and later Bishop Auckland) tradesman

Ben Spoor Benjamin Charles Spoor (2 June 1878 – 22 December 1928) was a British Labour Party politician. He took a particular interest in India. Born in Witton Park, County Durham, he went to Elmfield College, York, and came from a family of Primi ...

. *

Frederick Lewis, 1st Baron Essendon Frederick Lewis, 1st Baron Essendon (1870–1944), known as Sir Frederick Lewis, Bt, between 1918 and 1932, was a British shipping magnate. Biography Frederick Lewis was born in 1870 in Witton Park. In 1883, aged 13, he joined Furness Withy & Co ...

World shipping magnate was born and lived in Dents Villas.

References

External links

* A detailed study of the impact on the village of the 'Schedule D' status conferred on Witton Park by the 1951 Durham County Plan, which banned new development and enforced housing demolition, a 1979 MA thesis by R Snowdon: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/10107/1/10107_6901.PDF?UkUDh:CyT

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