Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Urpeth

Urpeth, township, Chester le Street par., Durham, 8 miles N. of Durham, 1725 ac., pop. 1692; has coal mines; Urpeth Lodge is the seat of the Bewicke family.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Chester le Street CP/AP/Ch       Urpeth CP/Tn       County Durham AncC
Place: Urpeth

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