Swallwell, Durham
Historical Description
Swallwell, a village in Whickham parish, Durham, on the river Derwent and the Consett railway, 3½ miles W by S of Gateshead. It has a railway station, steel works, paper-mills, fire-brick works, and a post and money order office (R.S.O.) under Whickham; telegraph office, Whickham. There are United Presbyterian, Wesleyan, Primitive, and New Connexion Methodist chapels, and a mission church, built in 1893-94.
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 | Whickham | |
Poor Law union | Gateshead | |
Ward | Chester |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Swallwell 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 Swallwell 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: