AUCKLAND (ST-HELEN), a chapelry in that
part of the parish of ST-ANDREW-AUCKLAND which
is in the north-western division of DARLINGTON ward,
county palatine of DURHAM, 3 miles (S. S. W.) from
Bishop-Auckland, containing, in the township of St.
Helen Auckland (which constitutes only a small portion
of the chapelry), 220 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Durham,
rated in the king's books at £13. 9. 4., endowed
with £400 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty,
and £1100 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of the Bishop of Durham. Here is a school, endowed
with land producing £ 20 per annum.