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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))
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| Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Easington Parish County Durham Ancient County |
| Place names: | HETTON | HETTON SOUTH | SOUTH HETTON |
| Place: | South Hetton |
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