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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Monkwearmouth Shore like this:
WEARMOUTH (Monk) SHORE, a township in Monk-Wearmouth parish, Durham; on the coast, within Sunderland borough. Acres, 308; of which 58 are water. Real property, £27,984; of which £100 are in iron-works, and £480 in railways. Pop. in 1851, 10,109; in 1861, 15,139. Houses, 1,892. The increase of pop. arose mainly from extension of ship-building, of chain, anchor, rope, and canvass factories, of rolling-mills, steam, saw, and flour-mills, and of mining operations. See Sunderland.
Monkwearmouth Shore is now part of SUNDERLAND District. Click here for graphs and data of how SUNDERLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Monkwearmouth Shore itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Monkwearmouth Shore, in Sunderland and County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25866
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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