Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WEARMOUTH (Bishop)

WEARMOUTH (Bishop), a township and two sub-districts in Sunderland district, and a parish partly also in Easington and Houghton-le-Spring districts, Durham. The township lies on the coast, at the mouth of the river Wear; includes a large portion of Sunderland town; and is all within Sunderland borough. Acres, 2,665; of which 188 are water. Real property, £152,499; of which £530 are in mines, £478 in ironworks, and £6,163 in gasworks. Pop. in 1851, 31,824; in 1861, 45,673, -of whom 372 were in Sunderland workhouse. Houses, 6,459.-The sub-districts are N. and S.; and they exclude part of B.-W. township, but include B.-W.-Pans, Ford, Tunstall, and Ryhope townships. Pop. of the N. sub-d., 23,749; of the S. sub-d., 25,083. Houses, 3,338 and 3,684.—The parish contains also Burdon and Silksworth townships; and is ecclesiastically cut into the sections of B.-W., B.-W.-St. Thomas, B.-W. St. Peter, Ford, Deptford, Ryhope, Hendon, Silksworth, Millfield, and Pullion. The living of B.-W. is a rectory, and that of B.-W.-St. Thomas is a vicarage, in the diocese of Durham. Value of B.-W., £2,000;* of St. T., £500.* Patron of both, the Bishop of D. The other livings are separately noticed. See Sunderland.


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

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Feature Description: "a township and two sub-districts"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: County Durham AncC
Place names: BISHOP WEARMOUTH     |     WEARMOUTH     |     WEARMOUTH BISHOP
Place: Bishop Wearmouth

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