Description
Ingleton, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Durham. The township lies 2 1/2 miles N of Gain-ford station on the N.E.R., and 8 from Darlington. It has a post office under Darlington; money order and telegraph office, Gainford. Acreage, 847; population, 290. The manor belongs to the Duke of Cleveland. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1850. Population, 609. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; gross value, £298 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Staindrop. The church was erected in 1844, and is in the Early English style. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels. A reading-room was opened in 1889.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
