Forest and Frith, Durham

Description
Forest and Frith, a township in Middleton-in-Teesdale parish, Durham, commencing about 4 1/4 miles NW of Middle-ton, and extending to the borders of Westmorland. It consists of three parts, called Ettersgill, Middle Forest, and Harwood,andwas formed into an ecclesiastical parish in 1875. It has a post office, called Forest School, under Darlington ; money order and telegraph office, Middleton-in-Teesdale. Acreage, 17,708; population, 675. Lord Barnard is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The surface is mountain and moorland, but it possesses more romantic and picturesque scenery than any other tract in the county; includes beautiful spots along the course of the headstreams of the Tees; and boasts the two magnificent waterfalls called High Force and Caldron Snout. Lead ore is plentiful, and has' been worked. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; net yearly value, £248 with residence. The Church of St James the Less, at Forest, is a building in the Gothic style, erected in 1845. A church rate amounting to a charge of Id. in the £ is still in existence in this township. The Church of St Jude, at Harwood, a chapel of ease, was rebuilt in 1849. There are also Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels.