Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Birtley

Birtley.-- township with ry. sta., Chester-le-Street par., N. Durham, 5 miles SE. of Gateshead -- township, 1429 ac., pop. 3540; eccl. dist., pop. 3954; P.O., T.O.; has coal mines.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Birtley Ch/CP       Chester le Street CP/AP/Ch       County Durham AncC
Place: Birtley

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