Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ETHERLEY

ETHERLEY, a chapelry in Auckland-St. Andrew parish, Durham; near the Northern Counties Union railway, 3¼ miles WSW of Bishop-Auckland. It has a station, jointly with Witton-Park, on the railway; and its post town is Witton-Park, under Darlington. It was constituted in 1833. Rated property, £2, 539. Pop., 1, 712. Houses, 352. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Durham. Value, £300.* Patron, the Bishop of Manchester. The church is very good.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Auckland St Andrew CP/AP       County Durham AncC
Place: Etherley

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