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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.
SEGHILL, or Sedgehill, a village and a township in Earsdon parish, and a chapelry partly also in St. Andrew parish, Northumberland. The village stands near the Blythe and Tyne railway, 6½ miles N N E of Newcastle; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Cramlington, Northumberland. The township comprises 1, 403 acres. Pop., 1,801. Houses, 350. The manor belonged anciently to Tynemouth priory; went to the Mitfords, who built a castle here; and passed, through the Allgoods and others, to the Blakes. The chapelry includes also part of Seaton-Delaval and Cramlington townships, and was constituted in 1846. Pop., 4, 588. Houses, 920. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £300.* Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1848. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, and a Church school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a township" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Newcastle upon Tyne St Andrew CP/Ch Northumberland AncC |
| Place names: | SEDGEHILL | SEGHILL | SEGHILL OR SEDGEHILL |
| Place: | Seghill |
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