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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cold Rowley like this:
COLD-ROWLEY, a hamlet in Lanchester parish, Durham; on the Stanhope railway, 7 miles N by E of Wolsingham. It has a station on the railway. Woodlands, adjacent to the station, is the seat of the Richardsons.
Cold Rowley 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 Cold Rowley itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Cold Rowley in County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25831
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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