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HEATHERYCLEUGH, a village and a chapelry in Stanhope parish, Durham. The village stands near the river Wear, and in the northern vicinity of Stanhope town and r. station; and is inhabited chiefly by lead and ironstone miners. The chapelry does not appear to have definite limits; and the statistics of it are returned with the parish. Post town, Stanhope, under Darlington. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £400. * Patron, the Rector of Stanhope. The church is modern.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Stanhope Parish County Durham Ancient County |
| Place: | Heathery Cleugh |
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