A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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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.
HUNWICK, a village, a township, and a chapelry in Auckland-St. Andrew parish, Durham. The village stands near the river Wear, and the Sunderland and Bishop-Auckland railway, 2½ miles NW by N of BishopAuckland; and has a station on the railway. The township includes also Helmington, and bears the name of Hunwick and Helmington. Acres, 1,560. Real property, £8,132; of which £5,967 are in mines, and £134 in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 486; in 1861, 1,203. Houses, 227. The increase of pop. was caused chiefly by the opening of new collieries.—The chapelry is larger than the township, and was constituted in 1845. Post town, Bishop289. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £300. * Patron, the Incumbent of Auckland-St. Andrew.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a township, and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Auckland St Andrew CP/AP County Durham AncC |
| Place: | Hunwick |
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