Place:


Kilhope Law  County Durham

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Kilhope Law like this:

KILHOPE-LAW, a mountain on the mutual border of Durham and Northumberland; immediately E of their meeting point with Cumberland at Kilhope-Cross. It has an altitude of 2, 196 feet. The river Wear rises on its SW side.

Additional information about this locality is available for Stanhope

Kilhope Law through time

Kilhope Law 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 Kilhope Law itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Kilhope Law, in Wear Valley and County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25856

Date accessed: 05th November 2024


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