Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CLEADON

CLEADON, a township in Whitburn parish, Durham: on the coast, 3 miles SSE of South Shields. Real property, £4, 477; of which £250 are in quarries. Pop., 257. Cleadon House is the seat of the Abbs family.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Whitburn CP/AP       County Durham AncC
Place: Cleadon

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