HUNSTONWORTH, a chapelry in the parish of
EDMONDBYERS, western division of CHESTER ward,
county palatine of DURHAM, 8 miles (N. N. W.) from
Stanhope, containing 411 inhabitants. The living is
a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Durham, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and
£600 royal bounty. John Ord, Esq. waspatron in 1811.
The river Derwent is formed here by the union of two
rivulets, called Beldon-Beck and Nuckton-Beck. The
Derwent lead mines are principally in this parish, and
produce annually about thirty-five thousand pigs of
lead.