Piercebridge, Durham
Historical Description
Piercebridge, a township in Gainford parish, Durham, on the river Tees at the boundary with Yorkshire, 5½ miles W by N of Darlington, and 238 from London. It occupies the site of the Roman station Magse or Magis, on Watling Street, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Darlington, and a station on the N.E.R. A small square camp is on the N side of the river, and a tumulus is on the S side. The township comprises 973 acres; population, 219. Lord Barnard is lord of the manor. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a chapel of ease.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | County Durham | |
Civil parish | Gainford | |
Poor Law union | Darlington | |
Ward | Darlington |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Piercebridge from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Pierse-Bridge)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for County Durham is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Piercebridge 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: