Haswell, Durham

Historical Description

Haswell, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Easington parish, Durham, on the Durham and Sunderland railway, 6¼ miles E by N of Durham. The township includes the hamlets of High and Low Haswell, and has a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Sunderland. Acreage, 3225; population, 6276; of the ecclesiastical parish, 3782. The surface, about the beginning of the 19th century, was nearly all moor, but now is mainly under cultivation. Coals of a superior quality are very extensively mined, and are sent for shipment at Hartlepool, Seaham Harbour, and Sunderland. An explosion took place in one of the mines in 1844, causing a loss of 90 lives. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; net value, £280. Patron, the Bishop. The church of St Paul, erected in 1867, is a building of red brick, consisting of nave, chancel, and N aisle with a porch. There are also a church mission room, Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, and Bible Christian chapels, and colliery schools, built in 1873.

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 Haswell from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Haswell 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