Description
Cockerton, a village and a township in Darlington parish, Durham, on the Cockerbeck, a branch of the river Skerne, 1 mile NW of Darlington. Part of the township is included in the borough of Darlington. It has a post and money order office under Darlington; telegraph office, Darlington, Acreage, 1812; population, 3108. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor. There are Free Methodist and Wesleyan chapels, and a national school endowed with £130 per annum. Carmel House is occupied as a convent by an order of Carmelite or Theresian nuns; their chapel is richly decorated.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
