Cornforth Durham Family History Guide
Cornforth is a parish, comprising the townships of East and West Cornforth, 5 miles north west from Sedgefield, half a mile from Thrislington station and 2 miles east from Ferry Hill station, in the Southern division of the county, union of Sedgefield, county court district of Durham, rural deanery of Stockton, archdeaconry and diocese of Durham.
Parish church: Holy Trinity
Parish registers begin: 1868
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist
Table of Contents
Cornforth Parish Registers
Baptism Records
Parish History
Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895
Cornforth, a township and ecclesiastical parish in Durham, on the Hartlepool railway, 6¼ miles SSE of Durham. There is a station on the N.E.R. at West Cornforth. Post town, West Cornforth. Acreage of township, 1758; population, 4459; of ecclesiastical parish, 4252.
The parish comprises the townships of Cornforth and Thrislington, The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; gross value, £300 with residence, in the gift of the Crown and Bishop alternately. The church was built in 1868.
There is also a Roman Catholic chapel, erected in 1874, containing an altar and two pictures presented by Pope Pius IX., and Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Source: The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895 by Brabner, John Henry Fryden
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CORNFORTH, a township-chapelry in Bishops-Middleham parish, Durham; on the Hartlepool railway, 6¼ miles SSE of Durham. Acres, 1,689. Real property, £3,172. Pop., 1,619. Houses, 336. The living is a vicarage. Value, £200. The church was built in 1865.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
CORNFORTH, a township, in the parish of Bishop’s-Middleham, union of Sedgefield, N. E. division of Stockton ward, S. division of the county of Durham, 6¼ miles (S. S. E.) from Durham; containing 700 inhabitants. It comprises about 1570 acres.
Coal is obtained, which is shipped on the Tees; and a vast quantity of limestone is quarried from a hill, at the bottom of which the village lies, in a low and warm situation: the houses are disposed in the form of a square, with a green of several acres in the centre. The impropriate tithes have been commuted for £108. 6. 6., and the vicarial for £28. 10.
Dr. Hutchinson, a learned writer, was born here.
An extensive burial-ground was discovered a few years since, in a field on the summit of the high ground on the south of the village: the graves are made in all directions, and at no great depth, in the magnesian limestone; in one was found the umbo of a shield, and in another the head of a spear.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Historical Directories
Kelly’s Directory of the Leather Trades 1880
WEST CORNFORTH
Boot & Shoe Makers & Dealers
Booth Ralph
Harrison William
Kirk Hutchinson
Oliver William
Thomas Richard
Wilson Robert
Maps
Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps