Coundon, Durham

Description
Coundon, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Durham. The township lies adjacent to the Stockton railway, 2 miles ESE of Bishop-Auckland, and has a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bishop-Auckland. Acreage of township, 794; population, 3635; of the ecclesiastical parish, 4229. The parish was constituted in 1842, and comprises the townships of Coundon, Westerton, and Windleston. Windlestone Hall and Howlish Hall are the chief residences. The inhabitants are engaged in the extensive collieries near the village. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; gross value, £460 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Durham. The church is good, and is a building in the Gothic style erected in 1872; and there are Wesleyan, and Primitive and New Connexion Methodist chapels.