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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.
NEASHAM, or Nysam, a township in Hurworth parish, Durham; on the river Tees, at the boundary with Yorkshire, 4 miles S E of Darlington. It has a post-office under Darlington, and a ferry on the Tees. Acres, 1, 575. Real property, £2, 141. Pop., 333. Houses, 77. The monks who bore the body of St. Cuthbert, crossed the Tees by a ford here, on their way to Ripon. A Benedictine nunnery was founded here, by the Dacres, before the time of Henry II.; and is now represented by only the foundations. Neasham Abbey, the seat of Mrs. Wilkinson, is a modern house. Neasham Hall, the seat of J. Cookson, Esq., is noted as a place where manythorough-bred race-horses have been bred. The owner of Sockburn manor used always, in the times of the Bishop of Durham's temporal power, to meet him on his first entrance into the county at Neasham, and to present him here with a sword.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Hurworth AP/CP Neasham CP/Tn County Durham AncC |
| Place names: | NEASHAM | NEASHAM OR NYSAM | NYSAM |
| Place: | Neasham |
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