Description
Kimblesworth, a colliery village and a parish in Durham, on the N.E.R., 2 3/4 miles N by W of Durham station. Post town, Chester-le-Street; money order and telegraph office, Durham. Acreage, 626; population, 1192. The Earl of Durham is lord of the manor. The colliery affords employment to a large number of the inhabitants. For ecclesiastical purposes it is united with the ecclesiastical parish of Witton Gilbert. There are a mission church erected in 1893, a Wesleyan chapel built in 1887, and a reading-room and institute.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
