Cornforth, Durham

Historical Description

Cornforth, a township and ecclesiastical parish in Durham, on the Hartlepool railway, 6¼ miles SSE of Durham. There is a station on the N.E.R. at West Cornforth. Post town, West Cornforth. Acreage of township, 1758; population, 4459; of ecclesiastical parish, 4252. The parish comprises the townships of Cornforth and Thrislington, The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; gross value, £300 with residence, in the gift of the Crown and Bishop alternately. The church was built in 1868. There is also a Roman Catholic chapel, erected in 1874, containing an altar and two pictures presented by Pope Pius IX., and Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.

Administration

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

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Cornforth from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Cornforth 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:

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