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Cornforth
Cornforth is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated a short distance to the north-east of Ferryhill.
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 (bap. 1698, d. 1769) was a classical scholar, born in Cornforth and baptised there on 17 May 1698.
Cornforth (surname)
Cornforth is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Arthur Cornforth (1861–1938), American politician
- Fanny Cornforth (1835 – c. 1906), English artist's model and mistress of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- John Cornforth (disambiguation), multiple people
- Mark Cornforth (born 1972), Canadian ice hockey player
- Maurice Cornforth (1909–1980), British Marxist philosopher