Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Lamesley

Lamesley, township and vil. with ry. sta., Chester-le-Street par., Durham, on Urpeth Burn and river Team, 4 miles S. of Gateshead, 7178 ac., pop. 4670; has quarries and coal and iron mines.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township and village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Chester le Street CP/AP/Ch       Lamesley Ch/CP       County Durham AncC
Place: Lamesley

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