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.
CULLERCOATES, a village, a township, and a chapelry, in Tynemouth parish, Northumberland. The village stands on the coast, near the Blythe railway, 1¼ mile-NNW of Tynemouth; is a sea-bathing resort; and has a station on the railway, a post office under North Shields, and a new hotel founded in 1869. The township is included within Tynemouth borough. Coal and stone have been worked; mineral springs exist; and fisheries are carried on. Pop., 866. Houses, 131. The chapelry was constituted in 1860. Pop., 1, 566. Houses, 271. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £200.* Patron, the Duke of Northumberland. The church is recent; and there are chapels for Independents and Primitive Methodists.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a township, and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Tynemouth AP/CP Northumberland AncC |
| Place: | Cullercoates |
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