Christon Bank

The village is named after the Christon (originally Cryston) family, who were local yeoman farmers and members of the Quaker movement.

The predominance of farming in the locality led to the setting up of commercial lime production in the area in the early part of the 19th century.

[5] Prior to the opening of the railway in 1847, Christon Bank consisted of just fourteen dwellings including two public houses, the Blink Bonny and the Rising Sun.

[6] The expansion of the village continued with the construction of a Primitive Methodist chapel in 1891 on the initiative of the station master Theopilus Moor and James Young who approached the Liberal statesman Sir Edward Grey for a donation of land which was approved; the first stone was laid in a special ceremony on 3 August 1891.

In 1900 a laundry was set up by Lady Grey of nearby Fallodon to provide employment for local women; at that time the village had a population of 105.

[8] A major expansion of the village started in the late 1980s with the building of the Mount View residential estate on land to the west of the railway.