Urpeth, Durham
Historical Description
Urpeth, a township in Chester-le-Street parish, Durham, 2¾ miles NW of Chester-le-Street, and 2 from Birtley station on the N.E.R. Post town, Chester-le-Street; money order and telegraph office, Birtley. Acreage, 1861; population, 2172. Urpeth Lodge is a chief residence.
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 Urpeth 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 Urpeth 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: