Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SEAHAM (New)

SEAHAM (New), a chapelry in Seaham parish, Durham; containing Seaham-Colliery village and r. station, 5 miles S of Sunderland. It was constituted in 1861; and it has a post-office under Sunderland. Pop., 2, 489. Houses, 480. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £385.* Patron, Earl Vane. The church was built in 1861.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Seaham AP/CP       County Durham AncC
Place names: NEW SEAHAM     |     SEAHAM     |     SEAHAM NEW
Place: New Seaham

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