A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
USWORTH, a township-chapelry, with a village, in Washington parish, Durham; adjacent to the North-eastern railway, 4 miles SE of Gateshead. It has a post-office under Gateshead, and a r. station. Acres, 2,548. Real property, £13,711; of which £7,225 are in mines, £109 in quarries, and £20 in the railway. Pop. in 1851, 2,051; in 1861, 3,677. Houses, 691. The increase of pop. arose chiefly from extension of collieries. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Durham. Value, £161.* Patron, the Rector of Washington. The church was built in 1832. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and an endowed school with £30 a year.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township-chapelry, with a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Usworth CP/Ch Washington AP/CP County Durham AncC |
| Place: | Usworth |
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