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An Historical, Topographical, and Descriptive View of the County Palatine of Durham
An Historical Topographical and Descriptive View of the County Palatine of Durham Author:Eneas Mackenzie General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1834 Original Publisher: Mackenzie and Dent Subjects: Durham (England : County) History / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books editi... more »on of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: DARLINGTON WARD. ROM Dinsdale and Sockburn on the south-east, to the extremity of Stanhope parish on the north-west, Darlington Ward measures about 45 miles in length, and averages nearly 15 miles in breadth. It is the largest of the five civil and ecclesiastical compartments into which the county palatine of Durham is divided, and is bounded on the east by Stockton Ward, on the north-east by the newly-formed Ward of Durham and the western extremity of Chester Ward, on the north by the imaginary line separating the county of Durham from Northumberland, on the west by Cumberland, and on the south-west and south by the river Tees, dividing it from Westmoreland and Yorkshire. About one half of this Ward, extending from its eastern boundary, is a fine cultivated district, embellished with a number of handsome villas, richly ornamented with wood and water, and provided with market towns; but the sterility of the bleak and wild hills of the western portion is compensated by its mineral treasures. The principal rivers of the Ward are, the Tees; the Skerne, which enters its eastern boundary near the village of Preston, and, passing by Darlington, falls into the Tees at Croft Bridge; and the Wear, which winds through it by a circuitous route from west to east. These rivers are replenished by a great number of brooks and rivulets, which intersect the Ward in every direction. This Ward, of which Darlington is the capital, forms one of the deaneries in the archdeaconry and diocese of Durham; and its seven...« less