Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DEPTFORD

DEPTFORD, a chapelry in Bishop-Wearmouth parish, Durham; adjacent to Sunderland. It was constituted in 1844; and has a post office under Sunderland. Pop., 10, 908. Houses, 1, 712. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £350.* Patron, the Bishop of Chester.


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

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Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: County Durham AncC
Place: Deptford

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