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| Name | Weardale Registration District |
| Type | Registration district |
| Located in | Durham, England (1837 - 1938) |
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Weardale from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "WEARDALE, a [registration] district in the W of Durham; containing Stanhope, Edmondbyers, Hunstonworth, and Wolsingham parishes, and divided into three sub-districts. Acres: 90,533. Poor rates in 1863: £4,725. Population in 1851: 14,567; in 1861: 16,418. Houses: 3,205. Marriages in 1863: 134; births: 674, -of which 58 were illegitimate; deaths: 328, -of which 122 were at ages under 5 years, and 5 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60: 1,286; births: 6,097; deaths: 3,235. The places of worship, in 1851, were 10 of the Church of England, with 2,720 sittings; 1 of Baptists, with 199 [sittings]; 12 of Wesleyans, with 3,185 [sittings]; 13 of Primitive Methodists, with 2,525 [sittings]; and 1 of Roman Catholics, with 159 [sittings]. The schools were 13 public day-schools, with 1,056 scholars; 16 private day-schools, with 611 [scholars]; and 33 Sunday schools, with 2,498 [scholars]. The workhouse is in Stanhope."
Abolished 1.7.1938 to become part of Durham Western registration district.
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