Description
Summerhouse, a township in Gainford parish, Durham, 6 1/2 miles WNW of Darlington, and 2 from Piercebridge-station on the N.E.R. Post town, Darlington; money order and telegraph office, Piercebridge. Acreage, 831; population, 127. Lord Barnard is lord of the manor. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
