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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Crawbrook like this:
CRAWCROOK, a township in Ryton parish, Durham; on the river Tyne, and the Newcastle and Carlisle railway, 7½ miles W of Gateshead. Acres, 1, 158; of which 23 are water. Real property, £1, 954. Pop., 319. Houses, 71. Coal is worked.
Crawbrook is now part of GATESHEAD District. Click here for graphs and data of how GATESHEAD has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Crawbrook itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Crawbrook, in Gateshead and County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/5717
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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