Description
Crawcrook, a village and a township formed in 1886 with Ryton Woodside into an ecclesiastical parish named Greenside, in Durham, on the river Tyne and the Newcastle and Carlisle railway, 7 1/2 miles W of Gateshead, and 1 1/2 mile from Ryton station on the N.E.R., with a post office under Ryton (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Emma Colliery. Acreage of township, 1059, of which 24 are water; population, 1054; of the ecclesiastical parish, 2679. There are Wesleyan and Congregational chapels. Bradley Hall is the seat of the Wallis family. See RYTON WOODSIDE.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
