Bishop Wearmouth, Durham

Historical Description

Wearmouth, Bishop, a township and a parish in Durham. The township lies on the coast, at the mouth of the river Wear, and to the S of that river, a part of the ancient parish having been cut off to form the parish of Sunderland. It is partly within Sunderland municipal borough. Acreage, 2668 of land and 167 of water and foreshore; population, 87,648. The trade, commerce, and manufacture are the same as those of Sunderland. The parish contains also the townships of Bishop Wearmouth Panns, Burdon, Ford, Silksworth, Tunstall, and Ryhope. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Durham; gross value, £1700. Patron, the Bishop. The church is a cruciform building, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, transepts, and western tower.

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.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Bishop Wearmouth from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wearmouth, Bishop (St. Michael))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Bishop Wearmouth 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