Description
Lumley, Great, a village and a township in Lumley ecclesiastical parish, Durham. The village stands on the river Wear, 2 miles NW of Fence Houses railway station, and 2 SE of Chester-le-Street. and has a post office under Fence Houses; money order and telegraph office, Fence Houses. The township includes the village, and extends into the country. Acreage, 1644, of which 25 are water; population, 1927. The manor belongs to the Earl of Scarborough. There are extensive collieries.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
