Felling, Durham

Description
Felling, a large village and an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1866 from the chapelry of St Mary, Heworth, and is part of the old parish of Jarrow, Durham. The village stands on the N.E.R., 1 1/2 mile SE of Gateshead, with which it is connected by a steam tramway; has grown of late years from two hamlets to its present condition. It is maintained by factories and by mining operations; is connected with Felling Shore, a coal-shipping place on the Tyne; and has a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.), a railway station, a church, built in 1866, five dissenting chapels, and a Roman Catholic church. It forms part of a district governed by a local board. Population, 7765. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; gross value, £300 with residence. There is a church institute, erected in 1885 at a cost of about £2000, containing large lecture hall, class-rooms, and reading-room. A Roman Catholic church was erected in 1894. Felling Shore and High and Low Felling are comprised in this parish.