Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HEATHERYCLEUGH

HEATHERYCLEUGH, a village and a chapelry in Stanhope parish, Durham. The village stands near the river Wear, and in the northern vicinity of Stanhope town and r. station; and is inhabited chiefly by lead and ironstone miners. The chapelry does not appear to have definite limits; and the statistics of it are returned with the parish. Post town, Stanhope, under Darlington. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £400. * Patron, the Rector of Stanhope. The church is modern.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Stanhope AP/CP       County Durham AncC
Place: Heathery Cleugh

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