Walworth, Durham
Historical Description
Walworth, a township in Heighington parish, Durham, 4½ miles NW of Darlington. Post town, Heighington; money order and telegraph office, Piercebridge. Acreage, 2156; population, 138. The castle was built in the time of Elizabeth, and was visited in 1603 by James I., and is now the property of the Aylmer family.
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 | Heighington | |
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 Walworth from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for County Durham is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Walworth 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: