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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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SACRISTON, a village and a chapelry in Witton-Gilbert parish, Durhamshire. The village stands 1¾mile N N E of Witton-Gilbert r. station, and 3½ N W of Durham; and has a post-office under Durham. The chapelry was constituted in 1863. Pop., 2, 106. Many of the inhabitants are employed in collieries. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Durham. Value, £300.* Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was completed in 1866, at a cost of somethingmore than £1, 700; and is in the early English style. A Wesleyan chapel was built in 1865.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Witton Gilbert AP/CP County Durham AncC |
| Place: | Sacriston |
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