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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
HARRATON, a township in Chester-le-Street parish, and a sub-district in Chester-le-Street district, Durham. The township lies on the river Wear, and on the North-eastern railway, 3 miles NE of Chester-le-Street; includes the villages of Chaters-Hough, Fatfield, and Pictree; and forms part of the chapelry of Birtley. Acres, 2,394. Real property, £13,007; of which £7,250 are in mines. Pop., 1,642. Houses, 327. The manor belongs to the Earl of Durham; and has his seat, Lambton Castle, on an eminence adjacent to the Wear. Coal is extensively worked; but some of the coal pits are exhausted. There are a chapel-school of the Established church, and chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists. —The sub-district contains Washington parish, and six townships and a chapelry of Chester-le-Street parish. Acres, 16,773. Pop. in 1851,9,822; in 1861, 13,423. Houses, 2,441.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Chester le Street CP/AP/Ch Harraton Tn/CP Harraton SubD County Durham AncC |
| Place: | Harraton |
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