In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Rookhope like this:
ROOKHOPE, a chapelry in Stanhope parish, Durham; on a brook of its own name, an affluent of the river Wear, 4¾ miles N W of Stanhope r. station. Post-town, Stanhope, under Darlington. The statistics arereturned with the parish. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Durham. Value, £400. Patron, the Bishop of Ripon.
Additional information about this locality is available for Stanhope
Rookhope through time
Rookhope is now part of Wear Valley district. Click here for graphs and data of how Wear Valley has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Rookhope itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Rookhope, in Wear Valley and County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25876
Date accessed: 19th April 2024
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