In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Auckland St Andrew like this:
AUCKLAND (St. Andrew), a township and a parish in Auckland district, Durham. The township lies on the Bishop-Auckland and Weardale railway, and at the confluence of the Gannless and the Wear rivers, 1 mile SE of Bishop-Auckland. Acres, 1,186. Real property, £12,242,-of which £9,373 are in mines. ...
Pop., 1,401. Houses, 283. The parish includes also the town of Bishop-Auckland, and the townships of Bishop-Auckland, St. Helen-Auckland, Middlestone, Westerton, Old-Park, Binchester, Newfield, Byers-Green, Hunwick and Helmington, Newton-Cap, Pollards-Lands, Coundon, Coundon-Grange, Windlestone, Eldon, Middridge-Grange, East Thickley, Shildon, Middridge, West Auckland, Barony, Lynesack and Softley, Hamsterley, North Bedburn, and South Bedburn; and its Post Town is Bishop-Auckland under Darlington. Acres, 45,868. Real property, £134,725. Pop. in 1841, 19,100; in 1861, 32,111. Houses, 6,301. The property, in most parts, is subdivided; in many parts, much subdivided. Coal and limestone are extensively worked. The living, with St. Ann, is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £587.* Patron, the Bishop of Durham. The church is a cruciform structure, with a tower at the west end; was made collegiate by Bishop Beck, in 1292, for a dean and nine prebendaries; contains brasses and the effigies of a crusader; and needs repair. The chapelries of St. Helen-Auckland, Byers-Green, Etherley, Hamsterley, Shildon, Witton-le-Wear, Coundon, Escomb, Fir. Tree, Hunwick, Lynesack, Evenwood, and New Shildon, are separate charges. Three endowed schools have an income of £485; and other charities have £304.
Auckland St Andrew through time
Auckland St Andrew is now part of Wear Valley district. Click here for graphs and data of how Wear Valley has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Auckland St Andrew itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Auckland St Andrew, in Wear Valley and County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1838
Date accessed: 19th April 2024
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