Barforth is a civil parish in the Teesdale district of County Durham, England, near Gainford.

Information is therefore maintained in the parish of Ovington.

The northern border of the parish is the River Tees.

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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