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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described South Hetton like this:
HETTON (SOUTH), a chapelry in Easington parish, Durham; on the Hartlepool and Sunderland railway, 3½ miles SW of Seaham-Harbour. It has a station on the railway and a post office under Fence Houses; and it was constituted in 1863. Pop., 2, 200. Coal is extensively worked. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £300.* Patron, the Bishop of Durham. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Metbodist chapels.
South Hetton 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 South Hetton itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of South Hetton in County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25673
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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