Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FROSTERLEY

FROSTERLEY, a township-chapelry in Stanhope parish, Durham; on the river Wear, and on the Weardale railway, 3¼ miles W of Wolsingham. It has a station with telegraph on the railway, and a post office under Darlington. Real property, £2, 716; of which £938 are in quarries, and £200 in mines. Pop., 486. Houses, 107. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £400. Patron, the Bishop of Chester. The church was built in 1869. There is a Wesleyan chapel.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township-chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Stanhope AP/CP       County Durham AncC
Place: Frosterley

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