PIERSEBRIDGE, a village and a township in Gainford parish, Durham. The village stands on the river Tees at the boundary with Yorkshire, adjacent to the South Durham and Lancashire Union railway, 5 miles W by N of Darlington; occupies the site of the Romanstation Magæ or Magis, on Watling-street; and has a post-office under Darlington, and a r. station with telegraph. A three-arched bridge here crosses the Tees; and was the scene of a skirmish, in 1644, between the royalists and the parliamentarians. A chapel was founded, at the end of the bridge, by King Baliol of Scotland. Asmall square camp is on the N side of the river; and a tumulus is on the S side. The township comprises 920 acres. Real property, £1, 321. Pop., 211. Houses, 54.

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