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Barforth is a civil parish in the Teesdale area of County Durham, England, near Gainford. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 77. At the 2011 Census the population remained less than 100. Information is therefore maintained in the parish of Ovington.[1] The northern border of the parish is the River Tees. Until the county boundary changes of 1974, the parish was in the county of North Yorkshire.[2] The name of the parish derives from the Old English of bereford, meaning barley ford.[3][4]
The abandoned village of Old Richmond lay in Barforth, west of Gainford, and the remains include the ruins of a dovecote and of St Lawrence's chapel, as well as the still-inhabited Barforth Hall.
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