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Kimblesworth, Durham

Historical Description

Kimblesworth, a colliery village and a parish in Durham, on the N.E.R., 2¾ miles N by W of Durham station. Post town, Chester-le-Street; money order and telegraph office, Durham. Acreage, 626; population, 1192. The Earl of Durham is lord of the manor. The colliery affords employment to a large number of the inhabitants. For ecclesiastical purposes it is united with the ecclesiastical parish of Witton Gilbert. There are a mission church erected in 1893, a Wesleyan chapel built in 1887, and a reading-room and institute.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyCounty Durham 
Poor Law unionDurham 
WardChester 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Kimblesworth from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for County Durham is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Kimblesworth are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering county Durham online:

CountyCounty Durham
RegionNorth East
CountryEngland
Postal districtDH2
Post TownChester Le Street

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