Beamish, Durham
Historical Description
Beamish, an ecclesiastical parish formed out of part of the townsllip of Beamish, taken from Tanfield parish, and part of the township of Kyo, taken out of Cotherley parish, both in Durham. It is bounded on the S by the Stanley Burn, and on the N by the Houghall Burn. It is cut by the Stanhope and Tyne railway, and is about 7 miles SW of (iateshead. Population, 6346. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; gross value, £316 with residence, alternately in the gift of the Crown and the Bishop of Durham. There are two Wesleyan chapels, one Primitive Methodist, one new Connexion, a Salvation Army Barracks, and a Roman Catholic chapel. Beamish Hall, the scat of the Eden family, is one of the finest mansions in the county.
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 | Lanchester | |
Ward | Chester |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Beamish 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 Beamish 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: