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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cramlington like this:
CRAMLINGTON, a chapelry in St. Andrew parish, Northumberland; on the North Eastern railway, near the river Blythe, 6¾ miles SSE of Morpeth. It has a station on the railway, and a post office, of the name of Cramlington, Northumberland. Acres, 3, 492. Real property, £37, 417; of which £25, 451 are in mines. Pop., 3, 301. Houses, 675. The property is divided among three. Coal is largely worked. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Durham. Value, £100.* Patron, Sir M. W. Ridley, Bart. A new church, at a cost of about £3, 000, was built in 1868.
Cramlington is now part of NORTHUMBERLAND Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTHUMBERLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Cramlington itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Cramlington in Northumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/981
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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