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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Beamish like this:
BEAMISH, a township in Tanfield chapelry, Chester-le-Street parish, Durham; on the river Urpeth, near Stanhope railway, 6 miles SW of Gateshead. Acres, 4,120. Real property, £6,757; of which £2,900 are in coal mines. Pop., 2,074.
Beamish 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 Beamish itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Beamish in County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25823
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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