In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Mordon like this:

MORDON, a township in Sedgefield parish, Durham; on the river Skerne, near the Great North of England and the Clarence railways, 8 miles NE of Darlington. Acres, 1,537. Real property, £1,536. Pop., 179. Houses, 35. Mordon Carr here is a tract of bog land.

Mordon through time

Mordon is now part of COUNTY DURHAM Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how COUNTY DURHAM has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Mordon itself, go to Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Mordon in County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1911

Date accessed: 08th April 2026


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