Rookhope, Durham
Historical Description
Rookhope, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Stanhope parish, Durham, on a brook of its own name, an affluent of the river Wear, 4½ miles NW of Stanhope station on the N.E.R. There is a post office under Darlington; money order office, Westgate; telegraph office, Stanhope. Population, 560. There are lead mines in the neighbourhood, and a fair is held in August. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; gross value, £400 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, and bell-turret. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for County Durham is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Rookhope are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering county Durham online: