Gateshead Fell St John Durham Family History Guide
Gateshead Fell St John is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Durham, created in 1809 from Gateshead St Mary Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Sheriff Hill, Wreckenton, Wrekinton, Low Fell, and High Fell.
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Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1825
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1825
Nonconformists include: Independent Methodist, Methodist New Connexion, Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
GATESHEAD-FELL, a chapelry in Gateshead parish, Durham; on the Northeastern railway, adjacent to Gateshead. It includes the villages of High Fell, Low Fell, Sheriff Hill, and Wreckenton; all of which, except Sheriff Hill, have post-offices under Gateshead. Rated property, £3, 781. Pop. in 1861, 4, 613. The property is much subdivided. Coal and gritstone are worked. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Durham. Value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of Durham. The church has a lofty tower, and was built in 1825. There are chapels for Wesleyans and New Connexion Methodists.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Durham
- Civil Registration District: Gateshead
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Durham (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Durham
- Rural Deanery: Chester le Street
- Poor Law Union: Gateshead
- Hundred: Chester Ward
- Province: York