Excerpt from History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham: Comprising a General Survey of the County, With Separate Historical, Statistical, and Descriptive Sketches of All the Towns, Boroughs, Ports, Parishes, Chapelries, Townships, Villages, Wards, and Manors As the utility of publications like the present entirely depends on their correctness, simplified arrangement, and cepiousness of information, the proprietors' attention, in the compilation of the present work, has been unremittingly devoted to the attainment of these objects, and to secure them every town, parish, township, village, and almost every house has been visited, the best topographical authorities have been consulted, and neither labour nor expense spared, in order to secure accurate and authentic informa tion. And, though it would be presumptuous to expect that a volume containing such a great body of matter, and such a diversity of subjects, could be entirely flee from errors, yet, it is hoped, that any which may appear in the present one, will be of no material deterioration to its general utility. The proprieto'rs, therefore, feel confident that, for general accuracy, compre hensiveness, and typographical execution, this work, which they now with much deference submit to the ordeal of public criticism, will be found to give general satisfaction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.