Dunston, Durham
Historical Description
Dunston, a village and an ecclesiastical parish on the north border of Durham, near the river Tyne, 2 miles WSW of Gates-head, with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Gateshead. Population of the ecclesiastical parish, 3397. Many of the inhabitants are keehnen. Dunston Lodge is a private lunatic asylum, established in 1830. The living is a vicarage; net value, £300, with a grant for residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Durham. The church, built in 1876, is in the Early English style. There are also, a Roman Catholic church, erected in 1883, Wesleyan and Methodist New Connexion chapels, sawmills and fire-brick works, &c. I
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for County Durham is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Dunston 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: