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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Rookhope like this:
ROOKHOPE, a chapelry in Stanhope parish, Durham; on a brook of its own name, an affluent of the river Wear, 4¾ miles N W of Stanhope r. station. Post-town, Stanhope, under Darlington. The statistics arereturned with the parish. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Durham. Value, £400. Patron, the Bishop of Ripon.
Rookhope 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 Rookhope itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Rookhope in County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25876
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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