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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Shotley Bridge like this:
SHOTLEY-BRIDGE, a village in Lanchester parish, Durham; on the river Derwent, near the Consett branch of the Northeastern railway, and 13 miles SW of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It was mainly settled by German sword-cutlers, religions refugees from Germany, in the time of William III.; rose to importance, in conjunction with Consett, as the centre of a great coalmining and iron-working region; is a seat of petty-sessions and county-courts; occupies a romantic site; and has a post-office‡ under Gateshead, a r. ...
station, a townhall of 1861, a church of 1850, and three dissenting chapels. Extensive iron-works are about 2 miles distant; and a large paper-manufactory is at Shotley-Grove. S. Hall is the seat of T. Wilson, Esq.; S. Park, of Miss Wallace; and a mansion, formerly the Spa hotel, of R. Dickinson, Esq.
Shotley Bridge 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 Shotley Bridge itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Shotley Bridge in County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21624
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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