Auckland St Andrew, Durham

Historical Description

Auckland, St Andrew, a township, a village, and a parish in Durham. The township lies on the Bishop-Auckland and Weardale railway, near the confluence of the Gaunless and, the Wear rivers, 1 mile SE of Bishop-Auckland. Acreage, 1274; population of the civil parish, 3110; of the ecclesiastical, 12,235. The parish includes also the townships of Bishop-Auckland, Coundon-Grange, Newton-Cap, and Pollards-Land, and its post town is Bishop-Auckland, which is the money order and telegraph office. Coal and limestone are extensively worked. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; net value, £542 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Durham. The church is a cruciform structure, with a tower at the west end; was made collegiate by Bishop Beck in 1292, for a dean and nine prebendaries: contains brasses and the effigies of a crusader; and has been thoroughly restored. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and four schools.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Auckland St Andrew from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Auckland, St. Andrew)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for County Durham is available to browse.

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering county Durham online:

• Hartlepool Mail
• Northern Echo
• Durham County Advertiser
• Teesdale Mercury