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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Great Lumley like this:
LUMLEY, a chapelry in Chester-le-Street parish, Durham; on Lumley beck, an affluent of the river Wear, 2 miles NW of Fence-Houses r. station, and 2 SE of Chester-le-Street. It consists of the townships of Great Lumley and Little Lumley; the former of which has a post office under Fence-Houses. ...
Acres, 2,410. Real property, £19,799; of which £15,300 are in mines. Pop., 1,928. Houses, 412. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £300.* Patron, the Bishop of Durham. The church was built in 1859, and is in the decorated English style. There are two Wesleyan chapels, a national school, alms houses for twelve widows, and other charities £50.
Great Lumley 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 Great Lumley itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Great Lumley in County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2772
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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