Eighton Banks, Durham

Historical Description

Eighton Banks, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Durham, constituted in 1863. Post town, and money order and telegraph office, Gateshead. Population, 2723. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; gross value, £300 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Durham. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel, a mechanics' institute, with reading room and library in connection with it, also a parish reading room and library.

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 Eighton Banks from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Eighton-Banks or Ayton-Banks)

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Eighton Banks 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