Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BURNMOOR

BURNMOOR, a chapelry in Penshaw parish, Durham. Post Town, Fencehouses. Pop., 1,151. Living, a p. curacy. Value, £300.* The church was built in 1868.


(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: Burnmoor CP/Tn       Penshaw CP/Ch       County Durham AncC
Place: Burnmoor

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