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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Greencroft like this:
GREENCROFT, a township in Lanchester parish, Durham; 1 mile N of Lanchester. Acres, 3, 050. Real property, £2, 908; of which £400 are in mines. Pop., 717. Houses, 151. Greencroft Park is the seat of Sir W. A. Clavering, Bart.; and was the place where Lady Catherine Graye, daughter of the Earl of Westmoreland, was arrested in 1598. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Greencroft 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 Greencroft itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Greencroft in County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2749
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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