A vision of Britain through time
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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.
BLAYDON, a small town in Winlaton township and parish, Durham; on the river Tyne, and on the Newcastle and Carlisle railway, 4 miles W of Newcastle-on-Tyne. It was not long ago a small village; but it acquired importance from a large manufacture of articles in fire-clay, and from transit communication, by river and by railway, with neighbouring iron-works and collieries; and it is now a considerable, well-built place, with regular streets running N and S. It has a post office‡ called Blaydon-on-Tyne, a station with telegraph on the railway, two chief inns, a mechanics' institute, a handsome church, much improved in 1869, and three Methodist chapels. Axwell Park, the fine seat of Sir W. A. Clavering, Bart., is in the vicinity.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a small town" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | Winlaton Tn/CP County Durham AncC |
| Place: | Blaydon |
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