WHORLTON, a chapelry in that part of the parish of GAINFORD which is in the south-western division of DARLINGTON ward, county palatine of DURHAM, 4 miles (E. S.E.) from Barnard-Castle, containing 300 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Durham, endowed with £600 private benefaction, and £800 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Gainford. The chapel stands near the edge of a steep cliff above the river Tees. Limestone abounds in the chapelry, in which also there are some petrifying springs.