A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
HASWELL, a township in Easington parish, Durhamshire; on the Durham and Sunderland railway, 6½ miles E by N of Durham. It includes the hamlets of High H., Low H., and H. Moor; it is partly within tlie chapelry of Shotton, sometimes called Shotton with Haswell; and it has a station on the railway, and a postoffice‡ under Fence Houses. Acres, 3, 108. Real property, £37, 291; of which £31, 716 are in mines, £5 in quarries, and £273 in railways. Pop., 4, 165. Houses, 846. The surface, about the beginuing of the present century, was nearly all moor; but now is mainly under cultivation. Coals are very extensively mined, and are seut for shipment at Hartlepool, Seaham-Harbour, and Sunderland. An explosion took place in one of the mines, in 1844, causing a loss of 90 lives. There are a church built in 1867, Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and a colliery school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Easington AP/CP Haswell Tn/CP County Durham AncC |
| Place: | Haswell |
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