Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BEAMISH

BEAMISH, a township in Tanfield chapelry, Chester-le-Street parish, Durham; on the river Urpeth, near Stanhope railway, 6 miles SW of Gateshead. Acres, 4,120. Real property, £6,757; of which £2,900 are in coal mines. Pop., 2,074.


(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: Chester le Street CP/AP/Ch       County Durham AncC
Place: Beamish

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