Description
Cornforth, a township and ecclesiastical parish in Durham, on the Hartlepool railway, 6 1/4 miles SSE of Durham. There is a station on the N.E.R. at West Cornforth. Post town, West Cornforth. Acreage of township, 1758 ; population, 4459; of ecclesiastical parish, 4252. The parish comprises the townships of Cornforth and Thrislington, The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; gross value, £300 with residence, in the gift of the Crown and Bishop alternately. The church was built in 1868. There is also a Roman Catholic chapel, erected in 1874, containing an altar and two pictures presented by Pope Pius IX., and Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
