Fulwell, Durham

Historical Description

Fulwell, a small village and a township in Monk Wearmouth parish, Durham, on the coast, and on the Newcastle and Sunderland railway, 1½ mile NNW of Sunderland. Acreage, 648; population, 1006. There arc extensive limestone quarries. A human skeleton, 9¼ feet long, with two Roman coins near its right hand, was found in a bank of earth at Fulwell Hill in 1759. The Fulwell waterworks and the Monk Wearmouth cemetery are in this township. There is a Congregational mission room.

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 Fulwell from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Fulwell 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