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.
CONSETT, a township and a chapelry in Lanchester parish, Durham. The township bears also the name of Conside-cum-Knitsley; lies at the terminus of the Lanchester branch of the Northeastern railway, near Shotley-Bridge, on the river Derwent, 8½ miles N of Wolsingham; and has a post office under Gateshead. Acres, 2, 617. Real property, £52, 239; of which £34, 700 are in iron-works, and £1, 000 in mines. Pop., 4, 953. Houses, 823. This place, besides having very extensive iron-works of its own, is the centre of a great coal mining and iron-working region, including Blackhill, Leadgate, Towlaw, Ebchester, Lanchester, Medomsley, Crook, Blanchland, and other places; and it publishes a weekly newspaper. -The chapelry was constituted in 1862; and is more extensive than the township. Post town, Consett, under Gateshead. Pop., about 5, 500. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £300.* Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. There are two Methodist chapels.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Lanchester AP/CP County Durham AncC |
| Place: | Consett |
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