Hunstanworth
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thumb|Parish church viewed from the west. The ruins of a 16th-century pele tower can be seen to the left. Hunstanworth is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated approximately 10 miles to the west of Consett, south-west of the village of Blanchland. The population of the village as taken at the 2011 Census was 116.
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thumb|Parish church viewed from the west. The ruins of a 16th-century pele tower can be seen to the left. Hunstanworth is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated approximately 10 miles to the west of Consett, south-west of the village of Blanchland. The population of the village as taken at the 2011 Census was 116.
Listed in the Boldon Book (1183), “Robert Corbet held Hunstanworth by forest service, as is expressed in his charter of inheritance”. Other nearby lands where held by the Hospital of St Giles at Kepier to which Corbet settled his whole estate. The Hospital held the lands until the dissolution when they were passed to William Paget.
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