Place:


Monkton  County Durham

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Monkton like this:

MONKTON, a hamlet in Hedworth, Monkton, and Jarrow township, Jarrow parish, Durham; 2 miles SW of Jarrow. It has a post office under Gateshead; it competes with Bede's Hill and with Sunderland the claim of being the birthplace of the Venerable Bede; and it has a spring, called Bede's Well, which was long a superstitions re sort for the benefit of diseased or infirm children.

Monkton through time

Monkton is now part of South Tyneside district. Click here for graphs and data of how South Tyneside has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Monkton itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Monkton, in South Tyneside and County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/3244

Date accessed: 28th March 2024


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