Bensham, Durham
Historical Description
Bensham, an ecclesiastical parish and suburb of Gateshead parish, Durham, 1½ mile SSW of Gateshead. The parish was constituted in 1865, and has a railway station. Population, 9642. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of Durham. The church was built in 1848. There are two mission rooms.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for County Durham is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Bensham 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: