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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Harperley like this:
HARPERLEY, a railway station in Durham; on the Stanhope railway, 3 miles SE by E of Wolsingham. It has a post-office under Darlington. Harperley Park, adjacent, is the seat of G. H. Wilkinson, Esq.
Harperley 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 Harperley itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Harperley in County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25844
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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