Description
Lunedale, a township in Laithkirk ecclesiastical parish, Bomaldkirk parish, in the N. B. Yorkshire, on the river Lune, 11 miles NW by W of Barnard Castle, and 4 from Mickleton station on the N.E.R. It contains the hamlets of Bowbank, Grassholrne, Laith, Thringarth, and Wemmergill. Post town, Darlington; money order and telegraph office, Middleton-in-Teesdale. Acreage, 22,705 of. land and 65 of water; population, 357. The Earl of Strathmore is lord of the manor. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and divine service is also held in the schoolroom.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
