Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HURWORTH

HURWORTH, a village, a township, and a parish in Darlington district, Durham. The village stands on the brow f a hill, overlooking the Tees, at the boundary with Yorkshire, 1 mile ENE of Croft r. station, and 3¾ SSE of Darlington; consists chiefly of one spacious wellbuilt street; commands a fine view of the valley of the Tees; and has a post office under Darlington. - The township comprises 2, 355 acres. Rea property, £5, 958. Pop., 1, 192. Houses, 28 4.—The parish contains also the township of Neasham, and comprises 3, 930 acres. Real property, £8, 099. Pop., 1, 525. Houses, 361. The property is much subdivided. The linen manufacture is carried on. A Benedictine nunnery was at Neasham. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Durham. Value, £574. * Patron, the Rev. R. H. Williamson. The church was repaired in 1832, at a cost of £1, 800; has a stained glass window and a tower; and contains two military effigies, and a monument to the mathematician W. Emerson, who was a native, and was buried in the churchyard. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, a turreted national school, and charities £38.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a township, and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Hurworth AP/CP       Darlington RegD/PLU       County Durham AncC
Place: Hurworth

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