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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described New Seaham like this:
SEAHAM (New), a chapelry in Seaham parish, Durham; containing Seaham-Colliery village and r. station, 5 miles S of Sunderland. It was constituted in 1861; and it has a post-office under Sunderland. Pop., 2, 489. Houses, 480. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £385.* Patron, Earl Vane. The church was built in 1861.
New Seaham 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 New Seaham itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of New Seaham in County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25867
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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