Cornforth is a village in County Durham

County Durham

County Durham is a ceremonial county and unitary district in north east England. The county town is Durham. The largest settlement in the ceremonial county is the town of Darlington...

, England

England

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. It is situated a short distance to the north-east of Ferryhill

Ferryhill

Ferryhill is a town in south-central County Durham, England with a population of around 11,651 people, making it the 8th biggest town in the County. It is in the Durham County Unitary area...

.

Before the middle part of the Victorian era, when coal mining was at its height in County Durham, Cornforth was in the parish of Bishop Middleham.

Thomas Hutchinson

Thomas Hutchinson (scholar)

Thomas Hutchinson was an English clergyman and classical scholar.-Life:The son of Peter Hutchinson of Cornforth, in the parish of Bishop Middleham, County Durham , was baptised there on 17 May 1698. He matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 28 March 1715, and graduated B.A. 1718, M.A. 1721,...

 (bap. 1698, d. 1769) was a classical

Classics

Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean world ; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity Classics (sometimes encompassing Classical Studies or...

 scholar, born in Cornforth and baptised there on 17 May 1698.

External links

• West Cornforth Village Website
• Cornforth Colliery entry on Durham Mining Museum
• Cornforth Quarry entry on Durham Mining Museum