Place:


Park Quarter  County Durham

 

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

PARK-QUARTER, a township in Stanhope parish, Durham; on the river Wear, 3 miles W of Stanhope. Acres, 12, 190. Real property, £4, 397; of which £12are in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 991; in 1861, 1,091. Houses, 213. Much of the surface is moor and mountain. Park Pike is a pillar bearing the initials L. M., and commonly called Long Man's Grave.

The location is the approximate centre of where the name "Park Quarter" appears, in large letters, on the Ordnance Survey 1:10,560 map of Durham of 1861, accessible on the old-maps.co.uk site. Additional information about this locality is available for Stanhope

Park Quarter through time

Park Quarter is now part of Wear Valley district. Click here for graphs and data of how Wear Valley has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Park Quarter itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Park Quarter, in Wear Valley and County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25872

Date accessed: 28th March 2024


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