Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HEBBURN

HEBBURN, a village in Jarrow township and parish, Durham; on the river Tyne, 3 miles WSW of South Shields. It is a shipping place for coals, and has a postoffice under Gateshead.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Jarrow AP/CP       County Durham AncC
Place: Hebburn

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