Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HENDON

HENDON, a chapelry in Bishop-Wearmouth parish, Durham; on the coast, at the N terminus of the Hartlepool and Sunderland railway, in the southern outskirts of Sunderland. It has a station on the railway; and its post town is Sunderland. It was constituted in 1854. Pop., 11, 451. Houses, 1, 685. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Durham. Value, £300. * Patron, the Rector of Bishop-Wearmouth. See Wearmouth and SUNDERLAND.


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

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Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: County Durham AncC
Place: Hendon

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