Thornley (Kelloe), Durham

Historical Description

Thornley, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Kelloe parish, Durham. The village stands on a branch of the N.E.R., 6½ miles ESE of Durham, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Trimdon Grange (R.S.O.), a railway station, a reading-room and institute, a church, and Roman Catholic, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels. The township comprises 1148 acres; population, 2070. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1844, and comprises the colliery village of Wheatley Hill. Population, 2811. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; gross value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Bishop. The church, in the Early English style, was restored in 1883; it consists of chancel, nave, western porch, and bell turret.

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 Thornley (Kelloe) from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Thornley (Kelloe) 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