A History of the County of Durham - 9781904356264

A History of the County of DurhamVolume IV: Darlington\nAuthor(s): Gillian Cookson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Victoria County History, United Kingdom\nImprint: Victoria County History\nISBN-13: 9781904356264, 978-1904356264\nSynopsis\nTracing the history of Darlington from its beginnings as a small Anglo-Saxon settlement right up to the present, this volume marks the rebirth of the Victoria County History of Durham.\n\nThis latest volume in the Victoria Country History of Durham (the first for over eighty years) presents a study of the township of Darlington, part of the parish of the same name. It traces the history of Darlington from the earliest times: a small Anglo-Saxon settlement becoming a flourishing bishop's borough in the middle ages; its growth as an important staging post on the Great North Road during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; and the town'sprosperity during the nineteenth century, reinforced by its situation on the railway network. The story is taken .