Heatherycleugh Durham Family History Guide

Heatherycleugh is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Durham, created in 1827 from Stanhope Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Heathery Cleugh

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1825
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1825

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

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Adjacent Parishes

Heatherycleugh Parish Registers

Bishops Transcripts

Explore the Bishops’ Transcripts for the Diocese of Durham (1639–1919) – This collection offers parish register copies submitted annually to the Bishop, covering baptisms, marriages, and burials across Durham, Northumberland, and parts of Yorkshire and Cumberland. Ideal for tracing ancestors when original registers are missing or incomplete.

Heatherycleugh Bishops Transcripts 1825-1839

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HEATHERYCLEUGH, a village and a chapelry in Stanhope parish, Durham. The village stands near the river Wear, and in the northern vicinity of Stanhope town and r. station; and is inhabited chiefly by lead and ironstone miners. The chapelry does not appear to have definite limits; and the statistics of it are returned with the parish. Post town, Stanhope, under Darlington. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £400. Patron, the Rector of Stanhope. The church is modern.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Maps

Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps

Administration

County: Durham
Civil Registration District: Weardale
Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Durham (Episcopal Consistory)
Diocese: Durham
Rural Deanery: Darlington
Poor Law Union: Weardale
Hundred: Darlington Ward
Province: York