Place:


Framwellgate  County Durham

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Framwellgate like this:

FRAMWELLGATE, a township in Durham-St. Oswald parish, Durhamshire; on the W bank of the river Wear, partly within Durham city. Acres, 3, 467. Real property, £16, 133; of which £4, 600 are in mines, and £15 in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 3, 085; in 1861, 4, 326. Houses, 741. A Roman Catholic church, connected with a convent, was built in 1865.

Framwellgate through time

Framwellgate is now part of Durham district. Click here for graphs and data of how Durham has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Framwellgate itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Framwellgate, in Durham and County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/5791

Date accessed: 28th March 2024


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