Hello all I would like to thank all those that responded to my request for info re- Whitworth. What a wonderful response. The only trouble is, I felt so inadequate. I did look at some of the sites suggested, but I didn't find anything. I think, though, that I allowed the fact that my map book didn't include a Durham Whitworth to cloud my judgement. After receiving your replies, I tried again and (you've guessed it) I found the answer. In fact the street in question came up on Streetmap as being in Spennymoor and this fitted what I would have expected when I started out on this. I am not terribly au fait with County Durham and nor do I have access to local records and so I do feel rather ignorant about places. Although as a kid I used to spend summers in Durham, I did not know much more than Oakenshaw and Willington and the occasional trip to Durham City and all three of those places are not as they were when I was a kid and I found it hard to recognise them in later years. I did live in Durham City for a couple of years in the 1960s and even then I didn't know much more than how to get to Roker (the beach, not the football ground), Finchale Abbey and Weardale. I did visit various places playing football, but we were bussed in and out and I never really became familiar with any of them. Actually when I put Whitworth into Streetmap it came up with a Whitworth nowhere near what Durham Record Office's map showed as Whitworth Parish, but Whitworth Hall did. This is the sort of thing that confuses we "foreigners". I am fairly au fait with the part of Wales that I came from and with East London/Metropolitan Essex, where I worked/live. For instance I once offered to do look ups for areas round here, one of which was called Chadwell Heath. There is a Chadwell some miles away in Essex, but someone asked me about Shadwell and this is yet another place several miles the other way. No wonder some of us get confused about places that we are not familiar with. Oh well, that's my not very good explanation of why I am such an idiot. all the best, David W