A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
AUCKLAND (West), a township in St. Andrew-Auckland parish, Durham; on the river Gannless and on the Haggerleases branch railway, 3 miles SW of Bishop-Auckland. It has a post office‡ under Darlington. Acres, 3,720. Real property, £7,019,-of which £2,300 are in mines. Pop., 2,581. Houses, 535. Here are chapels for Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists, a large brewery, and a lunatic asylum.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | County Durham AncC |
| Place names: | AUCKLAND | AUCKLAND WEST | WEST AUCKLAND |
| Place: | West Auckland |
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