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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Knitsley like this:
KNITSLEY, a hamlet in Conside-cum-Knitsley townShip, Lanchester parish, Durham; on the Lanchester Valley railway, near Watling street, 3 miles WNW of Lanchester. It has a station on the railway.
Knitsley 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 Knitsley itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Knitsley in County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/5277
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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