Description
Auckland, West, a township and a village in Auckland (St Helen) parish, Durham, on the river Gaunless, with a station on the N.E.R., 3 miles SW of Bishop-Auckland, under which it has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 3407; population, 3651. There are chapels for Wesleyan and Free Methodists, a large brewery, and cattle fairs are held twice a year.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
