Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CORNFORTH

CORNFORTH, a township-chapelry in Bishops-Middleham parish, Durham; on the Hartlepool railway, 6¼ miles SSE of Durham. Acres, 1, 689. Real property, £3, 172. Pop., 1, 619. Houses, 336. The living is a vicarage. Value, £200. The church was built in 1865.


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

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Feature Description: "a township-chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: County Durham AncC
Place: Conforth

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