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Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries and Graveyards of County Durham
Image right - Middleton Churchyard - the graveyard of St.Mary the Virgin at Middleton in Teesdale, County Durham
Image Geograph © Copyright Helen Wilkinson and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence.
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The Church Monuments Society Updated as at 19/04/2014
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List of Towns
The four registration areas are:
- Seaham
- Stanley
- Bishop Auckland
- Durham City.
Seaham area covers:
Blackhall
Blackhall Rocks
Castle Eden
Cold Hesleden
Crimdon Dene
Dalton-le-Dale
Deaf Hill
Easington Colliery
Easington Village
Fleming Field
Haswell
Haswell Plough
Hawthorn
Hesleden
High Hesleden
Horden
Hutton Henry
Monk Hesleden
Murton
Old Shotton
Peterlee
Seaham
Sheraton
Shotton
Shotton Colliery
Shotton Village
South Hetton
Station Town
Thornley
Trimdon Foundry
Trimdon Station
Wheatley Hill
Wingate
Kelloe Winning
Town Kelloe
Old Kelloe
Trimdon Grange Kelloe
Stanley area covers:
Allendale Cottages
Allensford
Annfield Plain
Benfieldside
Blackhill
Bridgehill
Burnhope
Burnopfield
Blackhouse
Birtley
Bournmoor
Castle Dene
Castleside
Catchgate
Chester Moor
Chester-le-Street
Craghead
Consett
Cornsay Colliery
Crookhall
Delves Lane
Dipton
East Hedley Hope
East Law
Ebchester
Edmondsley
Esh Village
Fencehouses (part)
Grange Villa
Great Lumley
Greencroft
Hamsterley Colliery
Hamsterley Mill
Harelaw
Healeyfield
High Handenhold
High Westwood
Horsleyhope
Iveston
Knitsley
Lanchester
Langley Park
Leadgate
Low Westwood
Maiden Law
Medomsley
Milkwell Burn
Moorside
Muggleswick
Nettlesworth
New Kyo
Ouston
Oxhill
Pelton
Pelton Lane Ends
Pelton Fell
Perkinsville
Plawsworth
Picktree (part)
Pickering Nook
Quebec
Quaking Houses
Rowley
Sacriston
Satley
Shield Row
Shiney Row (part)
Shotley Bridge
South Moor Hospital
Stanley
Stony Heap
Tantobie
Tanfield Lea
Templetown
Urpeth
Waldridge Fell
Waskerley
West Pelton
Wharnley Burn
Witton Gilbert (pre-1938)
White-le-Head
Bishop Auckland area covers:
Auckland Park
Aycliffe Village
Barforth
Barnard Castle
- Barnard Castle - St. Mary
Barningham
Beechburn
Boldron
Bowes
Bildershaw
Billy Row
Binchester
Bishop Auckland
Bishop Middleham
Bishopton
Bitchburn
Brusselton
Burnt Houses
Butterknowle
Bradbury
Byers Green
Chilton
Chilton Lane
Cleatlam
Close House
Cockfield
Copley
Copelaw - Aycliffe
Coronation
Cotherstone
Coundon Gate
Coundon Grange
Coundon
Cowshill
Crook
Daddry Shield
Eastgate
Edmundbyers
Eggleston
Elstob
Embleton
Eldon Lane
Eldon
East Howle
Escomb
Etherley
Evenwood
Ferryhill
Fir Tree
Fishburn
Foxton & Shotton
Frosterley
Gainford
Gilmonby
Gurney Valley
Hamsterley
Harperley
Helmington Row
High Grange
Holwick
Hotts
Howden-le-Wear
Hunderthwaite
Hunstanworth
Hunwick
Hutton Magna
Ingleton
Ireshopeburn
Laithkirk
Lands
Langton
Lartington
Leasingthorne
Leeholme
Lunedale
Lynesack
Kirk Merrington
Marwood
Mainsforth
Metal Bridge
Mickleton
Middridge
Morden
Morley
Middlestone Moor
Middleton in Teesdale
Newfield
Newton Aycliffe
Newbggin in Teesdale
North Beechburn
North Close
Oakenshaw
Old Cornforth
Ovington
Page Bank
Phoenix Row
Ramshaw
Roddymoor
Romaldkirk
Rookhope
Ruffside
Rushyford
School Aycliffe
Shildon
South Church
Spring Gardens
Staindrop
- Staindrop Friends Burial Ground or Cemetery
- Staindrop, St. Mary
The Church Monuments Society 1 Monument - Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland (1425) and two wives. Alabaster
- Staindrop, St. Mary Churchyard
Find a Grave
Find a Grave 2nd page
Stainton
Stanhope
St. Helens Auckland
Sedgefield
- Sedgefield, St. Edmund Churchyard
Stillington (part)
Stanley (Crook)
Startforth
- Startforth, Holy Trinity Churchyard
St. Johns Chapel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John's_Chapel,_County_Durham (Villiage)]
Sunniside (Crook)
Sunnybrow
Thinford
Thornley Village
Todhills
Toft Hill
Toronto
Tow Law
Trimdon Village
Trimdon Grange
Trimdon Colliery
Tudhoe
Wackerfield
Wearhead
Wear Valley Junction
West Auckland
West Cornforth
Westgate
Westerton
Wheatbottom
Whitworth
Whorlton
Windlestone
Windmill
Winston
Woodham
Woodhouses
Woodland
Willington
Witton-le-Wear
Witton Park
Wolsingham
Wycliffe
Durham City area covers:
Durham City
Durham
- Durham Cathedral
Brandon
Bowburn
Broompark
Browney
Bearpark
Brancepeth
Coxhoe
Cornforth Lane
Cassop
Croxdale
East Hetton
Esh Winning (part)
Earls House
Hett
Kelloe
Kimblesworth (up to 1974)
Langley Moor
Leamside
Littletown
Ludworth
Meadowfield
New Brancepeth
Pittington
Pity Me
Quarrington Hill
Rainton Gate
Shadforth
Sherburn
Sherburn Hill
Shincliffe
Sunderland Bridge
Ushaw Moor
Waterhouses
West Rainton
Witton Gilbert
References and Sources
Contacts
Register Office - Seaham
Seaham Contact Centre
St John's Square
Sophia Street
Seaham
County Durham
SR7 7JE
- email: seahamregisteroffice@durham.gov.uk
- Tel: 03000 262 501
Register Office - Bishop Auckland
- Cockton House
- 35 Cockton Hill Road
- Bishop Auckland
- County Durham
- DL14 6HS
- email: bishopaucklandregisteroffice@durham.gov.uk
- Tel: 03000 260 600