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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Spennymoor like this:
SPENNYMOOR, a chapelry, with a village, in Whitworth parish, Durham; on the West Hartlepool railway, 4 miles NE of Bishop-Auckland. It has a r. station with telegraph, a post-office‡ under Ferryhill, a church, and four dissenting chapels; and is inhabited chiefly by colliers and foundry-men. The statistics are returned with the parish, and the living is annexed to Whitworth.
Spennymoor 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 Spennymoor itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Spennymoor in County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/654
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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