A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
MICKLEY, a township and a chapelry in Ovingham parish, Northumberland. The township lies near a side station on the Newcastle and Carlisle railway, 9½ miles E by S of Hexham; and contains the village of Mickley-Square, which has a post office under Stocksfield. Acres, 1,188. Pop. in 1851,566; in 1861,1,208. Houses, 216. The increase of pop. arose from extension of collieries. The manor belongs to W. B. Wrightson, Esq. Coal-mining and coking are largely carried on by the Mickley Coal company.—The chapelry contains also six other townships. Pop., 2,800. The living is a Vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £90. Patron, W. B. Wrightson, Esq. The church was built in 1824. There is an endowed school, with capacity for 200 children.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Northumberland AncC |
| Place: | Mickley |
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