•  Winston, County Durham

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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Winston like this:

WINSTON, a parish, with W. village and Newsham hamlet, in Teesdale district, Durham; on the river Tees, and on the Barnard-Castle and South Durham railway, 6 miles E of Barnard-Castle. It has a post-office under Darlington, a r. station, and a one-arched bridge of 111 feet in span built in 1764. Acres, 2,961. Real property, £3,290. Pop., 342. Houses, 60. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Durham. Value, £534.* Patron, the Bishop of D. The church was rebuilt in 1849. There is a parochial school. Bishop Burgess was a resident.

Winston through time

Winston is now part of Teesdale district. Click here for graphs and data of how Teesdale has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Winston itself, go to Units and Statistics.

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