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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described West Auckland like this:
AUCKLAND (West), a township in St. Andrew-Auckland parish, Durham; on the river Gannless and on the Haggerleases branch railway, 3 miles SW of Bishop-Auckland. It has a post office‡ under Darlington. Acres, 3,720. Real property, £7,019,-of which £2,300 are in mines. Pop., 2,581. Houses, 535. Here are chapels for Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists, a large brewery, and a lunatic asylum.
West Auckland 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 West Auckland itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of West Auckland in County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25021
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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