In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described West Auckland like this:
AUCKLAND (West), a township in St. Andrew-Auckland parish, Durham; on the river Gannless and on the Haggerleases branch railway, 3 miles SW of Bishop-Auckland. It has a post office‡ under Darlington. Acres, 3,720. Real property, £7,019,-of which £2,300 are in mines. Pop., 2,581. Houses, 535. Here are chapels for Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists, a large brewery, and a lunatic asylum.
Additional information about this locality is available for Bishop Auckland
West Auckland through time
West Auckland is now part of Wear Valley district. Click here for graphs and data of how Wear Valley has changed over two centuries. For statistics about West Auckland itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of West Auckland, in Wear Valley and County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25021
Date accessed: 27th April 2024
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