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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Sherburn Hospital like this:
SHERBURN HOSPITAL, an extra-parochial in the district and county of Durham; on the Northeastern railway, 3 miles ESE of Durham. Acres, 730. Real property, £975. Pop. in 1851, 34; in 1861, 186. Houses, 26. A magnificent lepers' hospital was founded here in 1181, by Bishop Pudsey; was mainly destroyed in 1300, by the Scots; was reconstructed in 1429, as alms houses, by Bishop Langley; was rebuilt in 1759, and enlarged in 1819; retains the Norman chapel and the doorway of the Norman tower of the original edifice; and serves for a master, 21 resident almsmen, and 9 out-pensioners.
Sherburn Hospital 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 Sherburn Hospital itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Sherburn Hospital in County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25878
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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