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Tantoby Durham Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

2009-07-21T20:57:04Z

TANTOBY, a hamlet, in the chapelry of Tanfield, parish of Chester-le-Street, union of Lanchester, Middle division of Chester ward, N. division of the county of Durham, 9 miles (S. W) from Gateshead. The village is situated in an extensive coal district, and upon elevated ground on the southern acclivity of a hill, whence there is a fine prospect of the surrounding country. The Brandling Junction railway passes close to it.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.

Naisbury Durham Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

2009-05-08T01:01:17Z

NAISBURY, a place in the E of Durham; 3 ¼ miles W of Hartlepool.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Murton Junction Durham Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

2009-05-01T20:40:17Z

MURTON-JUNCTION, a railway station in Durhamshire; at the junction of the Hartlepool and Sunderland and the Durham and Sunderland railways, in East Morton township, 8 miles ENE of Durham.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Sherburn Hospital Durham Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

2009-03-29T21:17:11Z

SHERBURN HOSPITAL, an extra-parochial in the district and county of Durham; on the Northeastern railway, 3 miles ESE of Durham. Acres, 730. Real property, £975. Pop. in 1851, 34; in 1861, 186. Houses, 26. A magnificent lepers’ hospital was founded here in 1181, by Bishop Pudsey; was mainly destroyed in 1300, by the Scots; was re-constructed in 1429, as alms-houses, by Bishop Langley; was rebuilt in 1759, and enlarged in 1819; retains the Norman chapel and the doorway of the Norman tower of the original edifice; and serves, for a master, 21 resident almsmen, and 9 out-pensioners.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Sherburn Durham Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

2009-03-29T21:16:15Z

SHERBURN, a township, with a village, in Pittington parish, Durhamshire; on the Northeastern and the Durham and Sunderland railways, 2 ¾ miles E of Durham. It has stations on the railways, and a post-office under Durham. Acres, 1,303. Real property, £17,331; of which £13,850 are in mines, and £164 in railways. Pop., 2,380. Houses, 482. Coal is extensively worked. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, a reading-room, and national schools. See sherburn hospital.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Sheraton Durham Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

2009-03-29T21:15:15Z

SHERATON, a township in Monk-Hesleton parish, Durham; 11 miles N of Stockton-on-Tees. Real property, £1,226. Pop., 139. Houses, 29.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Neasham or Nysam Durham Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

2009-03-29T21:13:58Z

NEASHAM, or nysam, a township in Hurworth parish, Durham; on the river Tees, at the boundary with Yorkshire, 4 miles SE of Darlington. It has a post-office under Darlington, and a ferry on the Tees. Acres, 1,575. Real property, £2,141. Pop., 333. Houses, 77. The monks who bore the body of St. Cuthbert, crossed the Tees by a ford here, on their way to Ripon. A Benedictine nunnery was founded here, by the Dacres, before the time of Henry II.; and is now represented by only the foundations. Neasham Abbey, the seat of Mrs. Wilkinson, is a modern house. Neasham Hall, the seat of J. Cookson, Esq., is noted as a place where many thorough-bred race-horses have been bred. The owner of Sockburn manor used always, in the times of the Bishop of Durham’s temporal power, to meet him on his first entrance into the county at Neasham, and to present him here with a sword.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Muggleswick Durham Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

2009-03-29T21:12:47Z

MUGGLESWICK, a parish in the district and county of Durham; on the river Derwent, at the boundary with Northumberland, 3 miles WNW of Cold-Rowley r. station, and 8 ½ N by W of Wolsingham. Post-town, Consett, under Gateshead. Acres, 7,098. Real property, £1,647. Pop. in 1851, 688; in 1861, 788. Houses, 157. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to the Dean and Chapter of Durham. An ancient hunting-seat of the priors of Durham stood here, in the valley of the Derwent; and a picturesque fragment of it still exists. A park, 3 miles long, and 2 miles wide, was enclosed, in the 13th century, by Prior Hugh. An extensive upland tract, in the S and the SW, bears the name of Muggleswick Common. Lead ore, containing some silver, is plentiful. All the lead mines within 12 miles of Muggleswick church were granted for 21 years, by Charles I., to the Duke of Buckingham. The southeastern border of the parish is traversed by the Stanhope railway, and shares in the mining industry of the Consett region. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Durham. Value, £300. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Durham. The church was rebuilt in 1728, and is substantial. There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans, and a parochial school.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Mount Pleasant Durhamshire Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

2009-03-29T21:11:44Z

MOUNT-PLEASANT, a village in the centre of Durhamshire; 1 mile W of Spennymoor r. station, and 4 WNW of Ferry hill. It has a post-office under Ferry hill, and a United Presbyterian church.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Chester le Street Durham Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

2009-03-29T21:09:34Z

CHESTER-LE-STREET, a small town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district in Durham. The town stands on a branch of Watling-street and the river Wear, adjacent to the Shields and Stanhope railway, 3 ¼ miles WNW of Fence-Houses station of the Northeastern railway, and 6 N of Durham city. It sprang from a Roman station; bore the name of Cunceastre in the time of the Northumbrian kingdom; was the seat of a bishopric from 883 to 955, intermediate between Lindisfarne-and Durham; consists now of one street about a mile long; is a seat of petty sessions and a polling-place; and has a post-office under Fence-Houses, a chief inn, a parish church, three dissenting chapels, an hospital, and a workhouse. The church is early and later English; has a fine tower and spire, 156 feet high; was restored in 1862, at a cost of £2,000; contains fourteen altar-tombs and effigies of the lords of Lumley; and was formerly collegiate. Lumley Park, a seat of the Earl of Scarborough, and Lambton Castle, the seat of the Earl of Durham, are in the neighbourhood.—The township includes the town, and comprises 2,666 acres. Real property, £17,801; of which £8,300 are in mines, and £195 in railways. Pop., 3,013. Houses, 610.—The parish contains also the townships of Great Lumley, Little Lumley, Lambton, Waldridge, Plawsworth, Edmonsley, Pelton, Urpeth, Ouston, Harraton, Birtley, Lamesley, Kibblesworth, Ravensworth, and Hedley, all in the district of Chester-le-Street, and the chapelry of Tanfield, in the district of Durham.