Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Westgate

Westgate.-- eccl. dist., Stanhope par., Durham, on river Wear, 5½ miles W. of Stanhope, pop. 978; P.O., called West Gate.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "ecclesiastical district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Stanhope AP/CP       County Durham AncC
Place names: WESTGATE     |     WEST GATE
Place: Westgate

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