Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BENSHAM

BENSHAM, a chapelry in Gateshead parish, Durham; 1 ¼. mile SSW of G. r. station. It was constituted in 1865. Pop., about 3,600. The living is a vicarage. Value, £430.


(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: Gateshead Parish       County Durham Ancient County

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