Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SEATON (North)

SEATON (North), a township in Woodhorn parish, Northumberland; on the coast, at the N side of the Wansbeck river's mouth, and at the terminus of a branch of the Blyth and Tyne railway, 6½ miles E of Morpeth. Acres, 1, 210; of which 100 are water. Pop. in 1851, 146; in 1861, 1, 262. Houses, 209. The increase of pop.arose from the extension of collieries. N. S. House is the chief residence.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: North Seaton CP/Tn       Woodhorn CP/AP       Northumberland AncC
Place names: NORTH SEATON     |     SEATON     |     SEATON NORTH
Place: North Seaton

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