Notable Residents
- John Garth, composer
- Thomas Jackson (1579-1640), scholar and priest.
- Anthony Salvin (1799-1881), the architect, spent much of his boyhood at Willington, where he lived with his grandfather.
- Henry Taylor (1800-1886), born in Bishop Middleham, spent his youth in Witton-le-Wear with his stepmother at Witton Hall (now Witton Tower) in the high street. His father George was a friend of Wordsworth and the poet visited him in July 1838. In Witton, Taylor wrote The Cave of Ceada which was accepted for the Quarterly Review. Another poem, The Lynnburn, is about the river which runs through the village.
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