Blaydon, Durham

Historical Description

Blaydon, a manufacturing village in the parish of Winlaton, Durham, on the river Tyne, and on the Newcastle and Carlisle railway, 4 miles W of Newcastle-on-Tyne. There is a suspension bridge over the Tyne. It has a large manufacture of articles in fire-clay, also glass-bottle, chemical, and engineering works, and good transit communication, by river and by railway, with neighbouring ironworks and collieries, and is a considerable, well-built place, with regular streets running N and S. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office called Blaydon-on-Tyne (R.S.O.), a railway station, two chief inns, a mechanics' institute, a handsome church, and three Methodist chapels. The urban sanitary district includes Winlaton, Chopwell, and Stella. Acreage, 9349; population, 13,371. Axwell Park, the fine seat of the Claverings, is in the vicinity.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Blaydon from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Blaydon-Burn)

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Blaydon 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:

• Hartlepool Mail
• Northern Echo
• Durham County Advertiser
• Teesdale Mercury