Moorhouse, Durham
Historical Description
Moorhouse, a township in Houghton-le-Spring parish, Durham, on the river Wear, 3½ miles NE of Durham, and 1½ mile from South Hetton station on the N.E.R. Acreage, 272; population, 90.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
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 | Houghton le Spring | |
Poor Law union | Houghton-le-Spring | |
Ward | Easington |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Moorhouse from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Moorhouse)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for County Durham is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Moorhouse 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: