Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for EASTGATE

EASTGATE, a chapelry in Stanhope parish, Durham; on the river Wear, 2½ miles W of Stanhope town and r. station. It has a post office under Darlington. The statistics are returned with the parish; and the living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Stanhope. There is a Wesleyan chapel.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: County Durham AncC
Place: Eastgate

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