Description
Blackwell, a village and a township in Darlington parish, Durham, on the river Tees, 1 1/2 mile SW by S of Darlington. Post town, Darlington, with money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1571; population, 391. Blackwell Hall is the seat of the Allan family, and was the death-place of George Allan the antiquary. There are a Free Methodist chapel and workmen's club and reading-room.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
