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A vision of Britain through time
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WINGATE, a village, a township, and a chapelry, in Kelloe parish, Durham. The village stands on the Hartlepool and Ferryhill railway, 9 miles WNW of Hartlepool; is of recent growth, and inhabited chiefly by colliers; and has a post-office‡ under Ferryhill, and a r. station. The township comprises 4,154 acres. Real property,£5,544; of which £1,402 are in mines, and £128 in railways. Pop. in 1851, 2,456; in 1861, 2,143. Houses, 433. The chapelry bears the name of Wingate-Grange, and was constituted in 1843. Pop. in 1861, 1,995. Houses, 400. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £246.* Patron, the Bishop of D. The church is good. There is a national school.
(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: | Kelloe AP/CP Wingate Tn/CP County Durham AncC |
| Place: | Wingate |
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