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Rh DAK 730 I'AKI.INCTON. . s S. ni 1 Wliiu In., ul.KY, ;i i and Wii-ksw.n-Lh, in B. from V. of Matlock, its post town. It i > i x ti >n liiii i M idland mi 1- hps. ...I 1 Vcnsloy, Siiittrrtun, am! nd tin- limit, of Darley Bale. The living is a root l.irhtield, val. Ci:fl, in tin- patron. of tin- l.i.-Kn]i. The ; to Si. Helen, i-, neiont structuri ', with a handsome tower: amongst its monuments is one to John of Darley, who was killed in the crusades. In tho ohnrohysid is a very old tree, which sh"- II rings per inch. At (in, ii. Smith I 'alley, is a district church dodi- i tn St. .M:u y. Tin living is a perpet. cur., val. '.il, in tin- patron, nt tin- ii rtm-. A priory was built here in the reign of Henry II. The Wesleyans have a chapi I. There ia an endowedachool in tin village, ami a National school, with a small cinluwiurnt, at 1 larley Dale. Flux- spinning is carried on extensively. Staunton Wood- house is the seat of tho Duke of. Rutland, who is lord of the manor. Fail '! sheep are held on tho at moors mi the nth -May iiud 27th . DARLEY, a tnshp. in tin- par. nf Hampsthwaite, lower div. of the wap. of Clam, in tho West Hiding of the co. of York, 6J miles W. of Ripley, and 4 from Pateley Bridge. It is situated on the river Nidd. There arc chapels for Wesleyans, Society of Friends, and Pri- mitivo Ifsthodiato. There is also a school for both sexes. The township is united with Menv/itli. DARLKV AHliKV, a chplrv. in the par. of St. Alk- niiind, bund, of Morlceton ana Litchurch, in tho co. of Derby, 1 mile N. of Derby. It is situated on tho river 1 1: i went, near the Leeds railway. There are traces of a small Austin abbey founded by the abbots of St. Helen's in tho reign of Henry I., and given to the West family, from which the place takes the suffix to its naim;. The living is a perpet. cur. in tho dioc. of Lichlicld, val. 150, in the patron, of T. W. Evans, Esq. The chinch is a MI -irm-ture, erected and endowed by the lato Walter KMUIS, Esq., in which is a monument to the founder and his wile. There are also schools, erected liy .M at a cost of about 3,000. Tho inhabi- tants are chiefly employed in the manufacture of paper, ami in cotton spinning. DAKI.I M ;si X)TT,a limit, in the par. of Tredington. . div. of tho hund. of Oswaldslow, in the co. of Worcester, 2i miles N.W. of Shipston-on-Stour. DARLINGSHAUGH, a vil. in the par. of Mclrose, in the co. of Roxburgh, Scotland. It forms a suburb to Galashiels, and is contiguous to tho Selkirkshire portion of that town. DARLINGTON, a suburb of the town of Stewarton, in the co. of Ayr, Scotland. It was originally called T. mplehouse, and is sometimes called Deanston, after William Deans, who introduced the woollen and carpet manufactures into the district. DARLINGTON, a ward iii the co. of Durham, sopar- i uto three divs. TheN.W. div. contains the pars, of tube, Brancepeth, Witimi-le-Wi u . Stanlmpo, Vol- iam, and, parts of Lanchestor and St. Andrew Auckland, comprising 145,430 acres; the S.K. div., the pars, of i iniscliffc. Ayeliffo, Darlington, Mcrrington, ingtim, Vitworth, and parts of I'.iinford. St. An- il, and llauu'hton-lc-Skerne, -~.V. div., the pars, of Midi;. Ciicklield, Staindrnp, V-< and part of (! a in ford, eumpiisim,' si i, lion l>AI;I,I<;T(iN, or DAKM'ON, a market town and par. in III- S.K. div. of the ward of Darlington, in the .N.v. of London bj IMirham. It has stations on tin Ndith- n and I larlington, Great Northern, South Diui: The parish is situated on the lank- and Tees, comprising the n t 1 1 irlington, and the tnshps. of An-li- . r.laekw.-ll, and < 'oekerion. The (own is of K" >'t antiquity, and wa % its de-pen. dencies, in King Etholred's i of the see of Durham. In 1 1 '. I II of Durham, erected an episcopal palace here, 'in wU many of his successors at i a borough by prescript i piiviL i the bishops <>t' Durham, to whom it ln-lo; inhabitants are chiefly . wool, flax, find cotton, in the iron wmks of the Sn Durham Iron 1'nmpany, and in extensive tann. breweries, and in polling ],!: southeni division of ihe county, and a pit: It is lighted V ml Well Ml]. Mater. Tin --as 1 1,'JJS, with 1 inlmhitcil houses, which in Itsiil had inciuasod to IS,' with J, i i-i.'i inhiihiic d In I own, rising J - ii-iim the river Skcrne, i, I g (K of the houses being inodorn. The |mlili.. In include an elegant townhall, in the Italian in 1808; a mechanics' in.-4itnte, erected in 1K1 of 2,400; adispensary; extensive gas- works ; ;ln-n market and clork-l d in 1863; a j< banking company, and a savings-bank. The a vie. in the dioc. of Durham, ii. :HI, in the juitn^ of the Duke of Cleveland. The i ' h f dedicated to St. Cuthliert, is an am i. nt strurture, n a square embattled towi-r >. six bells, on which the clock rings a tun hour. It has carved stone '"^ Alliin family, and had formerly four chauntries. ^ parish register commences in 1590. There are fa other churches: one dedicated to the !! >ly liii cur.* of the val. of 212, in the the Arch- deacon of Durham : it has aci ' >^ persons; the other, dedicated to St. John, is a (1U .. of the val. of 160, in the patron, of tin the bishop alternately; it was consecrated in tho foundation stone having been laid in 1847 by George Hudson, then M.P. and Ixml York. This church has a tower with five lulls, and has ^^ fine stained-glass windows. The Koman Baptists, Primitive Methodists, Wesl 1 j^
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is a cemetcrj' about a mile from the town ; tion allotted for members of the KsiuMish. hiivin usccrated by tin ' April, 1858. Queen Elizabeth's froe was founded loth .lime, 1563, by lei: revenue amounts to 247 per annum. A i was built in 1813, and an upper stor% There is also Mrs. Calvi rley's hlue- ( i principal bridge across the Ski rno is close to church ; it is three-arched, with stone parapet, and w erected in 1768 at a cost of 1,000. bridge crosses tho Cocierbeck in ' court is held once a month in tl public baths were erected in 1850, and tl Park, which is about a mile from the t in 1853, under the auspices of the I Health, and contains about twenty a. subscription library was established hen j> now contains upwards of 4,000 volumes. T ton and Stockton Time* is published The charities, which are numerous, an siderable sum annually.- There are four circular pit* at Oxen-y-field, called thV 11,11 Kettles. Tiny, full, being unaffected by tin tide of the river Tees, which they are on a level ; the water will no! with milk or soa; structed in mi YVitton I'aik Colli, , ton, was thi 1 first public railway in KnL'land upon loconi' i-i'iigiin-s v J was 125,000 for 24 miles, tin line pa~sin.i; - a mile of Darlington.- Tin Duk his title of earl from I 1 Black wall Grang tho seat of George Allan, the antiquary ; it still hel to tin Allan family. Muk'l da s are Monday Frida fail-: ale h,M ever) cattle, also the lirst Monday in March. IVI-I.T