WHITWORTH, a chapelry (parochial), in the southeastern
division of DARLINGTON ward, county palatine
of DURHAM, comprising the townships of Tudhoe and
Whitworth, and containing 409 inhabitants, of which
number, 111 are in the township of Whitworth, 5
miles (N. E. by N.) from Bishop-Auckland. The living
is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction and
patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Durham. The
chapel was originally a chapel of ease to the vicarage of
Merrington. In the churchyard, among other ancient
sepulchral memorials, are a monument of a knight in
armour, and the effigies of two ladies.