“ ONCE upon a time, a long, long time ago, a wooden cross stood on top of a high hill. Later a church took the place of the cross with monks living beside it where the residential Tremenduna Home now stands. The little farming village surrounding the church became known as Trim and Dun meaning hill and water, because the river Skerne rises at Hurworth Burn where the white monks lived. Now the village is Trimdon and is parent to more villages bearing the name of Trimdon, which is very confusing to strangers who regularly lose their way.
Locals call the original settlement either Old Trimdon, or Trimdon Village but signposts just show Trimdon and leave the word village off, hence many visitors find themselves in the wrong village.”
This extract is from E.R. Johnsons excellent booklets, Trimdon Snippets. For more information about Trimdon and its villages, past and present, please visit
The Trimdon Times website includes photo galleries, a discussion forum, history and family tree research material, local community notice boards, parish council news and lots more.
http://www.trimdontimes.co.uk
also mirrored at
http://www.trimdon.com
and
http://www.trimdon.org
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