Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BENTON (Long)

BENTON (Long), a township, a parish, and a subdistrict, in the district of Tynemouth, Northumlberland. The township lies on the Northeastern railway, and on the Blyth and Tyne railway, near the Roman wall, 3 miles NNE of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; and has stations on the railways, and a post office under Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The village consists of one long street, and stands on rock, dry, healthy, and pleasant. Pop., 2,222. Houses, 472. The parish includes also the townships of Walker, Killingworth, and Weetslade: and lies partly on the Tyne. Acres, 9,040; of which 110 are water. Real property, £39,372; of which £12,541 are in mines, £500 in quarries, and £2,000 in iron-works. Pop. in 1841, 8,711; in 1861, 13,304. Houses, 2,415. The property is not much divided. The manor belonged formerly to the De Merlays; and passed partly to the Brandlings. The inhabitants are employed mainly in extensive collieries, quarries, foundries, copperas-works, and gunpowder-works, The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £353. Patron, Balliol College, Oxford. The church is very good. The vicarage of Walker and the p. curacy of Killingworth are separate benefices. There are several dissenting chapels, and a national school.-The subdistrict is conterminate with the parish.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, and a subdistrict"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Longbenton AP/CP       Longbenton SubD       Northumberland AncC
Place names: BENTON     |     BENTON LONG     |     LONG BENTON
Place: Longbenton

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