Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Penshaw (or Painshaw)

Penshaw (or Painshaw), township and eccl. dist. with ry. sta., Hough ton le Spring par., Durham - township, 1085 ac., pop. 2605; dist., pop. 2892; P.O. at New Penshaw; the sta. is 8 miles NE. of Durham.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township and ecclesiastical district"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Penshaw CP/Ch       County Durham AncC
Place names: PAINSHAW     |     PENSHAW     |     PENSHAW OR PAINSHAW
Place: Penshaw

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