Thornley St Bartholomew Durham Family History Guide
Thornley St Bartholomew is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Durham, created in 1848 from a chapelry in Wolsingham Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Tow Law and Towlaw.
Alternative names: Thornley near Tow Law
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1848
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic and Wesleyan Methodist.
Table of Contents
Adjacent Parishes
Thornley St Bartholomew Parish Registers
Baptism Records
Death and Burial Records
Parish History
Thornley St Bartholomew
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
THORNLEY, a chapelry in Wolsingham parish, Durham; 1½ mile S of Towlaw r. station. Post town, Towlaw, under Darlington. Real property, £2,477; of which £1,000 are in mines. Pop., 3,264. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Durham. Value, £400. Patron, the Rector of Wolsingham. See Towlaw.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Tow Law
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
TOW-LAW, a village in Wolsingham and Brancepeth parishes, Durham; on the Bishop-Auckland and Carrhouse railway, 3 miles ENE of Wolsingham. It stands on an eminence, with a commanding view; it originated in iron-works, begun in 1844; it occupies ground on which previously were only a farmhouse and a small hostelry; it is now populous and prosperous; and it has a post-office under Darlington, a r. station with telegraph, and three dissenting chapels.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Maps
Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps
Administration
- County: Durham
- Civil Registration District: Weardale
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Durham (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Durham
- Rural Deanery: Darlington
- Poor Law Union: Weardale
- Hundred: Darlington Ward
- Province: York