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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Framwellgate like this:
FRAMWELLGATE, a township in Durham-St. Oswald parish, Durhamshire; on the W bank of the river Wear, partly within Durham city. Acres, 3, 467. Real property, £16, 133; of which £4, 600 are in mines, and £15 in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 3, 085; in 1861, 4, 326. Houses, 741. A Roman Catholic church, connected with a convent, was built in 1865.
Framwellgate 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 Framwellgate itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Framwellgate in County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/5791
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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