Lamesley, Durham
Historical Description
Lamesley, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Durham, with a station on the Team Valley railway, 4 miles S of Gateshead. Post town, Gateshead; money order and telegraph office, Birtley. The township comprises Eighton Banks, Kibblesworth, Hedley, and Eavensworth. Acreage, 7176; population, 4924; of the ecclesiastical parish, 2557. The manor belongs to the Earl of Eavensworth, whose seat, Eavensworth Castle, is a beautiful building of different styles standing in a park near the village. There are some collieries. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; net value, £214 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Eavensworth. The church was rebuilt in 1759, has a tower of 1821, and contains several stained windows. Considerable alterations and additions were made to it in 1884. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels at Kibblesworth, an almshonse erected in 1835 for eight aged persons, and other charities.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | County Durham | |
| Civil parish | Chester le Street | |
| Poor Law union | Chester-le-Street | |
| Ward | Chester |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Lamesley from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for County Durham is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Lamesley 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: