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HISTORY,

TOPOGRAPHY, AND DIRECTORY

OF THE COUNTY PALATINE OF

DURHAM,

COMPRISING

A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE COUNTY,

WITH SEPARATE

HISTORICAL, STATISTICAL, AND DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES

OF ALL THE

TOWNS, BOROUGHS, PORTS, PARISHES, CHAPELRIES,
TOWNSHIPS, VILLAGES, WARDS, & MANORS.

TO WHICH ARE SUBJOINED

A HISTORY AND DIRECTORY OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE,

AND

A LIST OF THE SEATS OF THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY.

BY WILLIAM WHELLAN & CO.

LONDON:

WHITTAKER AND CO., AVE MARIA LANE.

MANCHESTER:

GALT AND CO., DUCIE STREET, EXCHANGE.

Price to Subscribers, handsomely bound in half calf, and including a large Map of the County, £1;

GALT, KERRUISH, AND GENT, 28, NEW CANNON STREET, MANCHESTER.

Ix submitting the present volume to their numerous patrons and the public, the proprietors feel it an imperative duty to tender their best thanks to the various literary, scientific, and official gentlemen of the county, who have so readily furnished their agents with valuable contributions and corrections, as well as to those who have honoured the publishers with immediate communications. A work of this character embraces a great variety of subjects only thoroughly known to those whose engagements make them familiar with the requisite details; therefore, the assistance thus rendered has been of the utmost value, affording too, as it does, the surest means of giving to this publication that degree of authenticity and usefulness which the proprietors anxiously desire should be its characteristics. To their friend, John Rooke' Esq. of Akehead, Wigton, Cumberland, they are deeply indebted, for his excellent essay on the Geology of the Lake District, which they doubt not will be found to contain much valuable information, and to the subscribers, who have so munificently supported them in their arduous undertaking, they beg, in an especial manner, to offer their warmest acknowledgments..

As the utility of publications like the present entirely depends on their correctness, simplified arrangement, and copiousness of information, the proprietors' attention, in the compilation of the present work, has been unremittingly devoted to the attainment of these objects, and to secure them every town, parish, township, village, and almost every house has been visited, the best topographical authorities have been consulted, and neither labour nor expense spared, in order to secure accurate and authentic information. And, though it would be presumptuous to expect that a volume containing such a great body of matter, and such a diversity of subjects, could be entirely free from errors, yet, it is hoped, that any which may appear in the present one, will be of no material deterioration to its general utility. The proprietors, therefore, feel confident that, for general accuracy, comprehensiveness, and typographical execution, this work, which they now with much deference submit to the ordeal of public criticism, will be found to give general satisfaction.

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