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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | County Durham | |
Poor Law union | Durham | |
Ward | Chester |
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:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Kimblesworth)
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:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering county Durham online: