Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HETTON (SOUTH)

HETTON (SOUTH), a chapelry in Easington parish, Durham; on the Hartlepool and Sunderland railway, 3½ miles SW of Seaham-Harbour. It has a station on the railway and a post office under Fence Houses; and it was constituted in 1863. Pop., 2, 200. Coal is extensively worked. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £300.* Patron, the Bishop of Durham. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Metbodist chapels.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Easington AP/CP       County Durham AncC
Place names: HETTON     |     HETTON SOUTH     |     SOUTH HETTON
Place: South Hetton

Go to the linked place page for a location map, and for access to other historical writing about the place. Pages for linked administrative units may contain historical statistics and information on boundaries.