Wingate, Durham
Historical Description
Wingate, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Kelloe parish, Durham, The village stands on the Hartlepool and Ferryhill railway, 9 miles WNW of Hartlepool. It is inhabited chiefly by colliers, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.), and a railway station. The township comprises 4176 acres; population, 4463. In the neighbourhood are brickworks and a large colliery. The ecclesiastical parish bears the name of Wingate Grange, is partly in Monk Hesledon parish, and was constituted in 1842. Population, 5310. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; gross value, £340 with residence. Patron, the Bishop. The church, erected in 1840 and restored in 1870, is in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, and bell-turret. There are also Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, a reading-room and library, a theatre of wood built in 1885, and a police station.
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 | Easington | |
Ward | Easington |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Wingate from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wingate-Grange)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for County Durham is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Wingate 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: