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Whitwell House, Durham

Historical Description

Whitwell House, a township not attached to any parish, in Durham, 3 miles ESE of Durham, and 1¼ mile from Shincliffe station on the N.E.R. Post town, Durham; money order and telegraph office, Sherburn. Acreage, 642; population, 210. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel and a reading-room.

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 
WardEasington 

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


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Whitwell House from the following:


Land and Property

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


Newspapers and Periodicals

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

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