Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Sherburn Hospital like this:

SHERBURN HOSPITAL, an extra-parochial in the district and county of Durham; on the Northeastern railway, 3 miles ESE of Durham. Acres, 730. Real property, £975. Pop. in 1851, 34; in 1861, 186. Houses, 26. A magnificent lepers' hospital was founded here in 1181, by Bishop Pudsey; was mainly destroyed in 1300, by the Scots; was reconstructed in 1429, as alms houses, by Bishop Langley; was rebuilt in 1759, and enlarged in 1819; retains the Norman chapel and the doorway of the Norman tower of the original edific...

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e; and serves for a master, 21 resident almsmen, and 9 out-pensioners.

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