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21-443: Heighington may refer to: Places [ edit ] Heighington, County Durham , England Heighington, Lincolnshire , England Other uses [ edit ] Heighington (surname) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Heighington . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

42-514: A Spar shop and three pubs, The Bay Horse, The George and Dragon, and The Dog Inn, which lies just outside the village. The village had a Post Office , which included a shop, next to the village green. The shop closed down and the Post Office, along with the postbox, was relocated to the village hall. Since the turn of the millennium, a field on the outskirts of the village (on the way to Shildon and Bishop Auckland ) has been converted into

63-641: A football field. The site was being developed, including the construction of an adventure playground. In 2006 Heighington was judged, by Ptolemy Dean , from amongst 11 other villages around the UK to be the BBC's Perfect Village . Heighington CE Primary School is a voluntary controlled Church of England primary school located in Hopelands. It educates around 260 pupils aged 4–11. It has been assessed by Ofsted as providing an outstanding education. Heighington

84-424: Is a village in the borough of Darlington and ceremonial county of County Durham , England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 2,395. It is situated between Darlington and Shildon , near Newton Aycliffe . One of its most significant features is St Michael's Church , which sits in the middle of a large village green . The church is Norman , except for the 13th-century south aisle and

105-402: Is identified by its PIN. Post offices coming under Department of Posts, Ministry of Communication, Government of India have a history of one hundred fifty years. Private courier and delivery services often have offices as well, although these are usually not called "post offices", except in the case of Germany , which has fully privatised its national postal system . As abbreviation PO

126-464: Is instead known as a sorting office or delivery office, which may have a large central area known as a sorting or postal hall. Integrated facilities combining mail processing with railway stations or airports are known as mail exchanges. In India , post offices are found in almost every village having panchayat (a "village council"), towns, cities, and throughout the geographical area of India. India's postal system changed its name to India Post after

147-433: Is used, together with GPO for General Post Office and LPO for Licensed Post Office. There is evidence of corps of royal couriers disseminating the decrees of Egyptian pharaohs as early as 2400   BCE, and it is possible that the service greatly precedes that date. Similarly, there may be ancient organised systems of post houses providing mounted courier service, although sources vary as to precisely who initiated

168-552: The Holy Roman Empire . The British Postal Museum claims that the oldest functioning post office in the world is on High Street in Sanquhar , Scotland . The post office has functioned continuously since 1712, during which horses and stagecoaches were used to carry mail. Rural parts of Canada in the 19th century utilised the way office system. Villagers could leave their letters at the way office which were then taken to

189-951: The 19th century in the United States , this often led to smaller communities being renamed after their post offices, particularly after the Post Office Department began to require that post office names not be duplicated within a state . The term "post-office" has been in use since the 1650s, shortly after the legalisation of private mail services in England in 1635. In early modern England, post riders — mounted couriers —were placed, or "posted", every few hours along post roads at posting houses (also known as post houses) between major cities, or " post towns ". These stables or inns permitted important correspondence to travel without delay. In early America, post offices were also known as stations. This term, as well as

210-417: The 19th-century north aisle. A rare feature in this church is a pre- Reformation oak pulpit with six traceried linen fold panels, with an inscription bearing prayers for its donor: an Alexander Flettcher and his wife Agnes. Heighington previously boasted a Methodist Chapel, but this has since been converted into housing. The more recent expansion of the village is in the area around Pinewood Crescent and

231-477: The 2000 A.D., post offices would collect fees for radio licenses, recruitment for government jobs, and the operation of public call telephone (PCO) booths. Postmen would deliver letters, money orders, and parcels to places that are within the assigned area of a particular post office. Each Indian post office is assigned a unique six-digit code called the Postal Index Number , or PIN. Each post office

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252-580: The advent of private courier companies in the 1990s. It is run by the Indian government's Department of Posts. India Post accepts and delivers inland letters, postcards, parcels, postal stamps, and money orders (money transfers). Few post offices in India offer speed post (fast delivery) and payments or bank savings services. It is also uncommon for Indian post offices to sell insurance policies or accept payment for electricity, landline telephone, or gas bills. Until

273-553: The area around the Beech Crescent, Manor Court and Orchard Gardens, built in 1997. A recent, famous resident from Heighington is actor, writer and producer Mark Gatiss . It is often (wrongly) claimed that his father worked at nearby Winterton Hospital , and that this became the inspiration for ideas in The League of Gentlemen , but it was in fact Aycliffe Hospital where his father worked. The confusion likely arose from

294-433: The derelict historical station in time for the 200th anniversary of the opening of the railway line. There is also a working Heighington station on Station Road, DL5 6PX. [REDACTED] Media related to Heighington, County Durham at Wikimedia Commons Post Office Before the advent of postal codes and the post office, postal systems would route items to a specific post office for receipt or delivery. During

315-400: The fact that both (now demolished) hospitals lay in the district of Sedgefield and someone assumed it was Winterton. This mistake then led onto the assumption that Gatiss must therefore have been born in the village of Sedgefield (being next to Winterton Hospital), but in actuality, he was born only in the district of Sedgefield, in the village of Heighington, some miles away. Heighington has

336-492: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heighington&oldid=932869734 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Heighington, County Durham Heighington ( / ˈ h aɪ . ɪ ŋ . t ə n / HYE -ing-tən )

357-499: The nearest post office, as well as pick up their mail from the way office. In parts of Europe, special postal censorship offices existed to intercept and censor mail. In France, such offices were known as cabinets noirs . In many jurisdictions, mailboxes and post office boxes have long been in widespread use for drop-off and pickup (respectively) of mail and small packages outside post offices or when offices are closed. Germany's national postage system Deutsche Post introduced

378-602: The other providing sturdy oxen for bulk shipments. The Byzantine historian Procopius , though not unbiased, records the Cursus Publicus system remained largely intact until it was dismantled in the Byzantine empire by the emperor Justinian in the 6th century. The Princely House of Thurn and Taxis family initiated regular mail service from Brussels in the 16th century , directing the Imperial Post of

399-1136: The practice. In the Persian Empire , a Chapar Khaneh system existed along the Royal Road . Similar postage systems were established in India and China by the Mauryan and Han dynasties in the 2nd century BCE. The Roman historian Suetonius credited Augustus with regularising the Roman transportation and courier network, the Cursus Publicus . Local officials were obliged to provide couriers who would be responsible for their message's entire course. Locally maintained post houses ( Latin : stationes ) privately owned rest houses ( Latin : mansiones ) and were obliged or honored to care for couriers along their way. The Roman emperor Diocletian later established two parallel systems: one providing fresh horses or mules for urgent correspondence and

420-438: The term "post house", fell from use as horse and coach services were replaced by railways , aircraft , and automobiles . The term "post office" usually refers to government postal facilities providing customer service. " General Post Office " is sometimes used for the national headquarters of a postal service, even if the building does not provide customer service. A postal facility that is used exclusively for processing mail

441-459: Was an important stop on the Stockton and Darlington railway built by George Stephenson in the early 19th century, operated by locomotive Locomotion No. 1 . The station, which opened in 1827, is the world's oldest, and was in use until the 1970s. The building, Grade II*-listed , was in bad condition, but was restored in 1984 as an inn. The inn closed in 2017; in 2024 there were plans to renovate

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