Description
Broom, a township in St Oswald parish, Durham, 2 miles W of Durham city, which is the post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 1086; population, 1508. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor. There is a small mission church at Broom Park, erected in 1883. Bear Park, a populous colliery district and ecclesiastical parish, includes this township. The church is Early English, and was built in 1879. The living of Bear Park is a vicarage in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Durham; net value, £300. There is also a Wesleyan and a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
