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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.
NEWBOTTLE, a village and a township chapelry in Houghton-le-Spring parish, Durham. The village stands1½ mile N N W of Houghton-le-Spring, and 2 N N E of Fence-Houses r. station; has a post-office under Fence-Houses; and is inhabited chiefly by colliers and potters. The chapelry contains also the colliery village of Philadelphia, and the hamlet of Bunker-Hill. Acres, 1, 388. Real .property, £3, 620. Pop. in 1851, 2,067; in 1861, 2, 67 4. Houses, 517. The manor belongs to the Earl of Durham. A lurid blaze seems to be over all the surface at night, from the huge fires burning at the mouths of numerous neighbouring coal-pits. The living is a p.curacy, united with the chapelry of Herrington, in the diocese of Durham. Value, £420.* Patron, the Bishop of Durham. The church was built in 1850; and is a neat stone structure, in the later English style. The parsonage was built in 1866. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, and a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a town-ship chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Houghton le Spring CP/AP Newbottle Tn/CP County Durham AncC |
| Place: | Newbottle |
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