Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KELLOE

KELLOE, a township in Easington district, and a parish partly also in Durham district, Durhamshire. The township lies on a branch of the Hartlepool railway, 6½ miles SE of Durham; and has a post office under Ferryhill. Acres, 1, 592. Real property, £11, 297; of which £9, 047 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 149; in 1861, 530. Houses, 90. The manor belonged anciently to the Kellaws or Kellows, one of whom, Richard Kellow, became Bishop of Durham in 1311; and it took its name from them.—The parish contains also the townships of Thornley, Wingate, Coxhoe, Quarrington, and Cassop. Acres, 11, 119. Real property, £46, 862; of which £27, 435 are in mines, £20 in quarries, and £399 in railways. Pop. in 1851, 12, 278; in 1861, 12, 867. Houses, 2, 490. The pop. in 1831 was only 663; and the great subsequent increase of it arose from the opening and extending of coal mines. The property is much subdivided. Coxhoe Hall is a chief residence. There are brickfields, limeworks, and corn mills. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £212. * Patron, the Bishop of Durham. The church is decorated English, but has a chancel of 1854, with a memorial window to Miss Wood; and it was founded by the Kellaws, as a chantry; and it has a tower. The chapelries of Thornley, Coxhoe, and Cassop-cum-Quarrington are separate benefices. There are several Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and a partly-endowed girls' school.


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

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Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Durham RegD/PLU       County Durham AncC
Place: Kelloe

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