Black's Iron Highway from London to Edinburgh (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ...several caverns or excavations, which may be explored for nearly fifty yards. There are two chalybeate springs near the town. The Rev. Mr Romaine was a native of Hartlepool. Pop. of parish and chapelry, 5236. Houghton Le Spring is situated at the head of a fine vale, sheltered on the north and east by limestone hills. The church is a spacious building in the form of a cross; some portions of it are in the early English, and some in the decorated style. It contains the monument of Bernard Gilpin," the Apostle of the North," and one of the most pious of the English Reformers, who was for some time Rector of Houghton. On the north-east of the church-yard is the Grammar-School, which he founded with the aid of some friends. The mansion of Houghton Hall is supposed to have been built in the reign of Elizabeth or James. Sunderland is situated on the south side of the mouth of the Wear. The Parliamentary borough comprehends, besides the parish of Sunderland, tho townships of Bishop Wearmouth and Bishop Wearmouth Pans, Monkwearniouth, and Monkwearmouth Shore, and Southwick, on the north side of the river. Monkwearmouth was a placo of some note in the Anglo-Saxon and AngloNorman period. A monastery was founded here in the year 674, which was destroyed by the Danes in the ninth century. It was restored after the Conquest, but was soon after reduced to be a cell of the monasterv of St Cuthbert. 40 SUNDERLAND.--SOUIH SHIELDS. Bishop Wearmouth received a charter from Hugh Pudsey in the twelfth century, and, in 1634, it received a new charter of incorporation from Bishop Morton. During the civil wars it was garrisoned for the Parliament. The church is a very ancient building, but was much altered in the early part of the present century. The river is crossed by...