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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Elvet like this:
ELVET, a township in St. Oswald parish, Durham; partly within Durham city, and divided into Elvet borough and Elvet barony. Acres of the whole, 3, 800. Real property of E. borough, £4, 260; of E. barony, £11, 480, -of which £1, 880 are in mines. Pop. of the whole, 4, 140. Houses, 544. Maiden Castle, at Elvet, occupies a peculiarly shaped steep hill 100 feet high, over-hanging the Wear at Hill-tower, opposite Pellalo-wood. See Durham.
Elvet is now part of COUNTY DURHAM Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how COUNTY DURHAM has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Elvet itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Elvet in County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1859
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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