In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Monkwearmouth Shore like this:
WEARMOUTH (Monk) SHORE, a township in Monk-Wearmouth parish, Durham; on the coast, within Sunderland borough. Acres, 308; of which 58 are water. Real property, £27,984; of which £100 are in iron-works, and £480 in railways. Pop. in 1851, 10,109; in 1861, 15,139. Houses, 1,892. The increase of pop. arose mainly from extension of ship-building, of chain, anchor, rope, and canvass factories, of rolling-mills, steam, saw, and flour-mills, and of mining operations. See Sunderland.
The location is where the name "Monk Wearmouth Shore" appears on the Ordnance Survey 1:10,560 map of Durham of 1862, accessible on the old-maps.co.uk site. Additional information about this locality is available for Monkwearmouth
Monkwearmouth Shore through time
Monkwearmouth Shore is now part of Sunderland district. Click here for graphs and data of how Sunderland has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Monkwearmouth Shore itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Monkwearmouth Shore, in Sunderland and County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25866
Date accessed: 23rd April 2024
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