In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Lynesack like this:
LYNESACK AND SOFTLY, a township-chapelry in Auckland-St. Andrew parish, Durham; on headstreams of the river Gaunless, 3 miles W by N of Cockfield r. station, and 7 NNE of Barnard-Castle. Post town, Bishop-Auckland, under Darlington. Acres, 5,946. Real property, £3,215; of which £1,095 are in mines. ...
Pop. in 1851,787; in 1861,1,120. Houses, 223. The property is much subdivided. Part of the land is a barren hilly tract, called South Side. Many of the inhabitants are employed in coal mines. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £300. * Patron, the Bishop of Durham. The church is modern.
The location is where the name "Lynesack" appears on the modern 1:50,000 and 1:25,000 maps, i.e. the settlement named "Howle" on our 1940s New Popular map. On the modern 1:25,000 map the name "Lynesack" also appears, in somewhat smaller letters, about a mile to the west, just to the west of the settlement named "Lane Head" on the New Popular map. "Lynesack" appears at that location on our somewhat illegible nineteenth century First Series map, but not at the eastern location.
Lynesack through time
Lynesack is now part of Teesdale district. Click here for graphs and data of how Teesdale has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Lynesack itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Lynesack, in Teesdale and County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/4267
Date accessed: 23rd April 2024
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