Plawsworth, Durham
Historical Description
Plawsworth, a village and a township, with a station on the N.E.R., in Chester-le-Street parish, Durham, 3½ miles N by W of Durham. Post town and money order office, Nettlesworth; telegraph office, Sacriston. The township includes the hamlet of Nettlesworth. Acreage, 1320; population, 1055. There is a parish council consisting of nine members and a chairman. The Earl of Durham is lord of the manor. Coal is worked. There are a New Connexion Methodist and mission chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | County Durham | |
Civil parish | Chester le Street | |
Poor Law union | Chester-le-Street | |
Ward | Chester |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Plawsworth from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Plawsworth)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for County Durham is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Plawsworth 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: