Description
Bourn Moor or Bummoor, a village a township, and a parish in Durham, with a post office under Fence Houses, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage of township, 512; population, 1362; of the ecclesiastical parish, 1634. The parish comprises the townships of Bourn Moor, South Biddick, and Lambton, and part of Harraton, 1 mile NE of Fence Houses station on the N.E.R. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Durham; gross value, £405 with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Durham, who is lord of the manor and chief landowner. There are four dissenting chapels. There is a colliery, also coke ovens and brick factories.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
