Copy 1, Volume 1

The history and antiquities of the County Palatine, of Durham / By William Hutchinson, F.A.S.

  • William Hutchinson
Date:
1823
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    the only modern accounts of the county worth attention, except the geographical table given in the notes.* it ~ The county is divided into four wards, called Easington ward, Stockton ward, Darlington ward and Chester ward. We know no reason why the several districts took those denominations, or derived ‘their names from places of inferior consequence and distinction. ~The air of the county is generally healthy, though cold on the hills ; and according to some authors, that of the western parts sharper than that of the east. It is well watered by rivers and, brooks, the chief of which are the Tees and Were,+ both abounding with fish, and particularly with trout and salmon. Abbais and Priories in Durhamshire. ~’ Dunelholme upon Were River—Finkelo upon Were, a celle of xiij monkes be- longing to Durham— Weremouth—Garaw. There was a priori not farre from ‘Darington, as I remember, aboute Teis River. || The Limites of Durhamshire. Tese River—Tine River, on til he receive Derwent Water. vol viii. . | * It hath four wards instead of hundreds; one city (Durham) ; and eight market towns, viz. Auckland, Stockton, Sunderland, Darlington, Hartlepool, Stainthorp Barnardcastle, and Wolsingham ; eighty : parishes or ecclesiastlcal livings, of which thirty are rectories, twenty-one vicarages, and twenty-eight chapels, — Mag. Brit. _ Geographical Table. ——Durham. | Acres 610, 000—Circumference 107 miles—— 1 borough—9 market towns—118 parishes—15,984 houses—79, 920. inhabitants— 4 members to parliament—2 proportions paid to the land.tax—4 wards—Tyne, Wear, and, Teese, chief rivers—Coal, iron, and lead,» principal produce—Northern circuit—264 miles N. W. Durham from London. fis soil. . + Hollinshed’s description of these two rivers, and the several strearns that! join them, is so accurate, that we cannot omit the same, |The THESE, a river that beareth and feedeth an excellent salmon, riseth in the Black Lowes, above two miles flat west of the southerlie head of Were called Burdop, ‘and south) of the head of West Alen, and thence runneth through Tildale forest, and taking in the Langdon -water from northwest, it runneth to Dirtpit chappel, to New- biggin, and so to Middleton, receivingsby west of each of these a rill comming from by north (of which the last is called Hude)and likewise the Lune afterward by south- west, that riseth at three several places, whereof the first is in the borders of West- merland and there called -Arnegill-becke, the second more southerlie named Lune- Secke, and the third by south at Bandor Skarth-hil], and meeting all above Arnegill- house, they run {togither in one bottome to Lathekirke-bridge, aad then into the These. Having therefore met with these, it runneth to Mickleton, and there taking in. the Skirkwith-water, it goeth to Romaldkirke, crossing there also one rill and the Bander-brooke by southwest, and then going to Morewood-hag and Morewood-parke, till it come to Bernard’s castell. Here also it receiveth the Thursgill-water coming east of Rere-crosse in Yorkshire from the Spittle in Stanmore by Crag almost south, west, and being united with the These, it goeth by Stratford, Eglesdon, Rokesbie Thorpe, Wickliffe, Ovington, Winston, and betwene Barfurth and Gainfurth meeteth with another rill, that commeth from Langelie forest, betwene Rabie castell and Standorpe, of whose name I have no knowledge. But to proceed, the [hese being past Ramfurth, runneth betwene Persore and Cliffe, and in the waie to Croftsbridge Leland’s Itin. i} Neasham priory or abbey.