FORD, a chapelry in the parish of BISHOP-WEARMOUTH, northern division of EASINGTON ward, county palatine of DURHAM, 3 miles (W.) from Sunderland, comprising the villages of High and Low Ford, and containing 791 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Durham, and in the patronage of the Rector of Bishop-Wearmouth. The chapel was built in 18173 by Captain Thomas James Maling, R.N., who likewise endowed it. Low Ford is situated upon the river Wear, across which there is a ferry, called Hylton Ferry, and where there are two yards for ship-building, copperas works, and an earthen- ware manufactory.