Description
Dunston, a village and an ecclesiastical parish on the north border of Durham, near the river Tyne, 2 miles WSW of Gateshead, with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Gateshead. Population of the ecclesiastical parish, 3397. Many of the inhabitants are keelmen. Dunston Lodge is a private lunatic asylum, established in 1830. The living is a vicarage; net value, £300, with a grant for residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Durham. The church, built in 1876, is in the Early English style. There are also, a Roman Catholic church, erected in 1883, Wesleyan and Methodist New Connexion chapels, sawmills and fire-brick works, &c.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
