BLACKWELL, a township in the parish of DARLINGTON, south-eastern division of DARLINGTON ward, county palatine of DURHAM, l mile (S. W. by S.) from Darlington, containing 268 inhabitants. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The river Tees is navigable here, and a railway from Croftbridge to Darlington passes in the vicinity. At the Grange, in this township, then the property and. residence of George Allan, Esq., there was formerly an extensive collection of books, manuscripts, paintings/natural and artificial curiosities, and British birds stuffed, formed at a considerable expense by that gentleman, who had also a press, with which he printed several works, some pf them very scarce: this ingenious topographer, antiquary, and virtuoso, the early part of whose life was spent in the profession of the law, died of paralysis, May 18th, 1800.