Topics > County Durham > Barforth

Barforth


Barforth is a hamlet and a civil parish near Gainford in County Durham. Barforth was a manor during medieval times and there are remains of an abandoned medieval village. The former manor house - Barforth Hall - remains today, now used as a farmhouse. There are also the medieval remains of  St Lawrence's Chapel and a distinctive stone dovecote.

Barforth is a civil parish in the Teesdale district of County Durham, England, near Gainford. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 77. At the 2011 Census the population remained less than 100. Information is therefore maintained in the parish of Ovington. The northern border of the parish is the River Tees.

Landmarks

The abandoned village of Old Richmond lay in Barforth, west of Gainford, and the remains include the ruins of a dovecote and of St Lawrence's chapel, as well as the still-inhabited Barforth Hall.

Text from Wikipedia, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (accessed: 29/11/2017).
Visit the page: Barforth for references and further details. You can contribute to this article on Wikipedia.

County Durham Winston Bridge Gainford Barforth Civil Parish Barforth Hall Barforth Township, 1848 Chapel Bridge Dovecote Historical Account of Barforth (1846) St Lawrence's Chapel (ruins)
4 Resources
Add Resource
from Geograph (geograph)
Barforth Grange.
Pinned by Simon Cotterill
from Geograph (geograph)
Farmland, Barforth
Pinned by Simon Cotterill
from https://historicengland.org.u…
St Lawrence's Chapel, manorial settlement remains and dovecote
- "....The monument includes the remains of a chapel, a manorial settlement and a dovecote of medieval date, situated on a triangular shaped plateau above the flood plain of the River …
Added by
Simon Cotterill
from https://keystothepast.info/se…
Barforth
- "This may be the site of the medieval village of Brierford, mentioned in the Domesday Book as 'Brierforde'. It has often been known locally as 'Old Richmond', though the reasons …
Added by
Simon Cotterill

Comments

Add a comment or share a memory.

Login to add a comment. Sign-up if you don't already have an account.

Related Pages


Geo / Heritage Meta Data

List number: 1017319
Wikipedia: Barforth
County: County Durham
Keys to the Past HER: D1593
Grid sq: NZ1615
Grid sq: NZ1616

ABOUT US

Co-Curate is a project which brings together online collections, museums, universities, schools and community groups to make and re-make stories and images from North East England and Cumbria. Co-Curate is a trans-disciplinary project that will open up 'official' museum and 'un-officia'l co-created community-based collections and archives through innovative collaborative approaches using social media and open archives/data.

LATEST SHARED RESOURCES