In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Birtley like this:
BIRTLEY, a township and a chapelry in Chester-le-Street parish, Durham. The township lies on the Team Valley railway, 5 miles S by E of Gateshead; and has a post office‡ under Fence-Houses, and a r. station. Acres, 1,392. Real property, £11,539,-of which £1,450 are in mines, and £6,500 in iron-works. ...
Pop., 2,246. Houses, 383 The property is divided among a few. Coal is worked; and there is a brine spring. The chapelry was constituted in 1850. Pop., 3,888. Houses, 710. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £300.* Patron, the Rector of Chester-le-Street. The church was built in 1848. There are Wesleyan and Roman Catholic chapels, and a literary institute.
Birtley through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Birtley, in Gateshead and County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/4171
Date accessed: 05th November 2024
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