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Cornforth is a village in County Durham, England. It is adjacent to the village of West Cornforth , situated a short distance to the north-east of Ferryhill . Before the middle part of the Victorian era, when coal mining was at its height in County Durham, Cornforth was in the parish of Bishop Middleham.
Cornforth is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated a short distance to the north-east of Ferryhill. Before the middle part of the Victorian era, when coal mining was at its height in County Durham, Cornforth was in the parish of Bishop Middleham. Thomas Hutchinson (bap. 1698, d. 1769) was a classical scholar, born in Cornforth and ...
- 673 hectares
- 43.3
- 360 people/km 2
- 2,424 (2021)
- Cassop
- Quarrington and Quarringtonshire
- Quarrington Hill
- Kelloe
- Coxhoe
- Garmondsway and Raisby
- Cornforth
- West Cornforth
- Thrislington
- Metal Bridge and Tursdale
Old Cassop is just off the A181 Silent Bankto the south east of Durham City and is one of two distinct places called Cassop. The roots of Old Cassop go back to medieval times and it is still a farming village in appearance formed from a handful of houses. It should not be confused with Cassop, the former mining village across Cassop Vale to the sou...
Quarringtonshire was an ancient district stretching from Sherburnto Tursdale with an Anglo-Saxon name but like other such districts probably had roots going back to earlier Celtic times. The district was still recognised after the Norman Conquest but as a part of the County Durham. Other old shires in Durham which formed divisions of the Kingdom of...
The hill top now occupied by Quarrington Hill village was more than once a location for military encampments in centuries past. During the English Civil War in April 1644, the Scots under the Earl of Leven encamped on the hill for seven days before heading to Marston Moor near York to fight alongside the victorious Parliamentarians in the battle th...
Kelloe has a name that derives from ‘Kelf Law’ meaning ‘Calf Hill’ and its history dates back before medieval times. The hill, now Kelloe Law, is that between Kelloe and Trimdon. There were two old settlements called Kelloe, namely Town Kelloe and Church Kelloe both of which are shrunken medieval villages. Shrunken and deserted medieval villages ar...
Coxhoe is on the old main road from Stockton to Durhamon lower-lying land bordered by the magnesian limestone hills to the east. A Roman road known in more recent times as Cade’s Road passes through the centre and more or less follows the Stockton to Durham turnpike road of 1742 that is now part of Coxhoe’s Front Street. Coxhoe’s Anglo-Saxon name m...
Significant quarrying activity continues in the neighbourhood just south of Coxhoe in the Raisby-Garmondsway area where it began in 1845. Garmondsway and possibly Raisby are both deserted medieval villages. There is a small present-day village called Garmondsway about a quarter of a mile to the east of the much larger deserted medieval village. Sig...
Cornforth or ‘Corneford’ as it was known in medieval times was the site of two corn mills in that distant era but this is not an explanation for its name. For philological reasons place-name experts have concluded that in the same way as Cornsay near Lanchesteris the ‘crane’s hill’, Cornforth was the ‘crane’s ford’ in a reference to the bird of tha...
West Cornforth is Cornforth’s near neighbour and the two villages merge together. It was a product of the nineteenth century coal mining boom and initially developed to the west of Cornforth itself, then spread south west and south east of the original village. West Cornforth is affectionately known by the nickname ‘Doggie’ but it is not clear why....
To the south of the Cornforths there is an extensive magnesian limestone quarry and concrete works at Thrislington, separating the area from Ferryhill and Mainsforth. Thrislington which is mistakenly called ‘Thristlington’ on one prominent local signpost was originally called Thurstanton and is a Viking-Danish place-name where the personal name Tho...
To the north west of the Cornforths is the little village of Metal Bridge on the road towards the Thinford roundabout (near Spennymoor). The road here is crossed by a railway bridge in Bridge Street that carries the East Coast mainline. The village is on the west side of the bridge and is the site of a pub called The Poachers. Under the bridge and ...
- The Tudor Era (1485–1558): The Age of Religious Upheaval. Henry VII’s (reigned 1485-1509) victory at the Battle of Bosworth marked the end of the medieval Plantagenet age and raised an obscure Welsh nobleman to the crown of England.
- The Elizabethan Era (1558–1603): The Age of Discovery. Elizabeth Tudor’s route to the English throne was not easy. Her mother, Anne Boleyn, was executed when she was just a child; Elizabeth was then declared the illegitimate daughter of a traitor, though Henry VIII still recognized her as his own.
- The Stuart Era (1603–1714): The Age of Civil War. The Stuart family had already ruled Scotland for 232 years when James VI became James I of England (reigned 1603–1625).
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Cornforth History. 246 likes. Local Historian, Genealogist & Military Researcher researching about the Village & Residents of Cornforth, as well as those...
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Historic maps of the Cornforth area. Take a look at our selection of old historic maps based upon Cornforth in Durham. Taken from original Ordnance Survey maps sheets and digitally stitched together to form a single layer, these maps offer a true reflection of how the land used to be. Explore the areas you know before the railways, roads and ...
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Description. "The place‐name has been interpreted as meaning ‘the ford of the cranes’ from the Old English words cran and forth. The area came within the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Durham, and Cornforth Moor was mentioned in old documents relating to the Palatinate of Durham in 1303, and Corneforth occurs in Bishop Hatfield’s Survey ...
