Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PALLION

PALLION, a railway station in Durham; on the Sunderland and Durham railway; near the river Wear, 2 miles W N W of Sunderland. Pallion House is the seat of the Fenwicks. The name Pallion is a corruption of Pavilion.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: County Durham AncC
Place: Pallion

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