Description
Cowpen or Coopen-Bewley, a township in Billingham parish, Durham, 2 miles from Billingham station on the N.E.R. at the estuary of the Tees, 4 1/4 miles NE by N of Stockton-upon-Tees. Post town, money order, and telegraph office, Stockton-on-Tees. Area (including Saltholme), 2835 acres ; population, 1051. The Dean and Chapter of Durham are lords of the manor and owners of all the land except Saltholme, a large farm which belongs to the governors of Durham University.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
