WEARDALE-ST. JOHN, a chapelry, with a village, in Stanhope parish, Durham; on the river Wear, 7 miles W of Stanhope r. station. It has a post-office,‡ of the name of St. John's Chapel, under Darlington, a market-cross, a weekly market on Saturday, and a fair on 4 July. Rated property, £8,369. Pop., 3,100. The property is subdivided. Lead mines employ many of the inhabitants, and belong to W. B. Beaumont, Esq. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Durham. Value, £400.* Patron, the Bishop of D. The church is good; and there are four dissenting chapels, and a national school.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))