In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Heathery Cleugh like this:
HEATHERYCLEUGH, a village and a chapelry in Stanhope parish, Durham. The village stands near the river Wear, and in the northern vicinity of Stanhope town and r. station; and is inhabited chiefly by lead and ironstone miners. The chapelry does not appear to have definite limits; and the statistics of it are returned with the parish. Post town, Stanhope, under Darlington. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £400. * Patron, the Rector of Stanhope. The church is modern.
The modern church of St Thomas Heatherycleugh "is located in the center of the village of Cowshill, Upper Weardale, having been rebuilt there in 1912 after an encroaching quarry forced abandonment of the original site" (http://www.achurchnearyou.com/heatherycleugh, accessed 23 Oct 2011). Additional information about this locality is available for Stanhope
Heathery Cleugh through time
Heathery Cleugh is now part of Wear Valley district. Click here for graphs and data of how Wear Valley has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Heathery Cleugh itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Heathery Cleugh, in Wear Valley and County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25847
Date accessed: 01st May 2024
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