Sunderland Bridge, Durham

Historical Description

Sunderland Bridge, a township in Croxdale ecclesiastical parish, St Oswald parish, Durham, on the river Wear 3½ miles S of Durham, and about 1 mile from Groxdale station on the N.E.R. It has a post office under Durham; money order office, Croxdale Colliery; telegraph office, Tnd-hoe Colliery. Acreage, 1442, including 30 of water; population, 1359. The parish church of St Bartholomew is in this township. It is in the Early English style, and consists of chancel, nave, S aisle, and tower with spire. There are collieries in the neighbourhood.

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 Sunderland Bridge from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Sunderland Bridge 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