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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Fishburn like this:
FISHBURN, a township in Sedgefield parish, Durhamshire; 9¼ miles SSE of Durham. Acres, 2, 082. Real property, £1, 966. Pop., 255. Houses, 55. It has a Wesleyan chapel, and is a meet for the Durham hounds.
Fishburn 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 Fishburn itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Fishburn in County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2397
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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