Eryholme is situated to the North East of the East Richmond Team Benefice in a meander of the River Tees to the South of Hurworth and Neasham.  There are ten houses in the village with 19 outlying farms/houses within the Parish boundary.  The  parish has maintained its chief activity as farming and currently all farms are part of the Neasham Estate owned by the Wrightson family.  We have a Church and a post box!!  The telephone kiosk was removed approximately three years ago!  Being so small we are a very close community centred around the Church.  Eryholme is probably most well known locally for its cricket team formed in 1956 by Norman Farnaby and friends and continued with enthusiasm by Charlie Walker.  Historically,  Eryholme, it is believed, was a settlement called Ergum or Agrum in Saxon times which was a collection of ‘wattle and daub’ dwellings. It was a very important village /township because of its proximity to Hurworth and Neasham fords across the Tees where an Ecclesiastical Ceremony of a Falchion was presented to the Bishop of Durham at the county boundary in the middle of the river.  It has connections with archery when in 1673 Henry Calverley, whose family seat was at Eryholme Manor, presented the Silver Arrow and became the first ‘Captain of the Arrow’ which now relates to Scorton, where an Archery Club still exists today.  Eryholme Grange  was famous for the breeding of shorthorn cattle, Favourite being a cow sold to the Colling Brothers which became part of the original stock from which came The Durham Ox, Comet etc.  St. Mary’s is built of red sandstone and stands on probably the highest ground in the village. It consists of a Chancel with North Vestry, Nave, South Porch and an embattled West Tower, although this is only 6 feet square.  The earliest part of the present church dates back to 1150 and the styles range from late Norman to early Perpendicular.  The Register dates back to 1565.  The seating capacity has changed over the years depending on the size of the pulpit, the organ and the heater and has been described variously between 60 and 120. The Parish Church of St Mary Sunday Services 1st Sunday of the Month: 1100 Holy Communion 3rd Sunday of the Month: 1800 Evening Prayer Contacts: Revd David Lewis The Rectory, Great Smeaton 01609 881205 davidlewis648@btinternet.com