Cowpen or Coopen Bewley, Durham

Historical Description

Cowpen or Coopen-Bewley, a township in Billingham parish, Durham, 2 miles from Billingham station on the N.E.R. at the estuary of the Tees, 4¼ miles NE by N of Stockton" upon-Tees. Post town, money order, and telegraph office, Stockton-on-Tees. Area (including Salthoime), 2835 acres; population, 1051. The Dean and Chapter of Durham are lords of the manor and owners of all the land except Salthoime, a large farm which belongs to the governors of Durham University.

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 Cowpen or Coopen Bewley from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Cowpen or Coopen Bewley 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