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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Conforth like this:
CORNFORTH, a township-chapelry in Bishops-Middleham parish, Durham; on the Hartlepool railway, 6¼ miles SSE of Durham. Acres, 1, 689. Real property, £3, 172. Pop., 1, 619. Houses, 336. The living is a vicarage. Value, £200. The church was built in 1865.
Conforth 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 Conforth itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Conforth in County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/4183
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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