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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Eighton Banks like this:
EIGHTON-BANKS, a chapelry in Chester-le-Street parish, Durham; constituted -in 1863. Pop., 2, 286. The living is a vicarage. Value, £300.*
Eighton Banks is now part of SUNDERLAND District. Click here for graphs and data of how SUNDERLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Eighton Banks itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Eighton Banks, in Sunderland and County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25836
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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