The main agricultural outputs are wheat, oats and barley, all of which thrive due to the mix of magnesian, limestone and siltstone, unique to the North East region of England.

[9] "It was part of the Bishop of Durham's scheme to keep revenue in the Bishopric which would have "pilgrimed" to Canterbury on one of the earliest "Package-Tours' Food, transport Accommodation and "Rep"s ' Geoffrey Chaucer wrote of such, in his "Canterbury-Tales".

However, today the church stands as a historic relic and is a Grade A listed building[11] The population of Grindon has fluctuated and changed greatly over the past 150 years.

[14] [15] Coal became an increasing and desirable source of energy in the 1800s, which also marked the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain; it fuelled the expansion of the British Empire and manufacturing all over the country.

Northern England was an essential player in this movement, in particular, areas such as County Durham which was home to vast supplies of coal, a resource which was exacerbated in the extreme.

This period also saw the beginning of the National Health Service, established in 1948;[18] these factors account for the rise in population and change in demographics as the countryside became increasingly desirable after the war.

Although slightly dominated by primary industry, parish level census statistics show that over 20% of employment was in the secondary sector, of which encompassed retail and handicraft businesses.