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Bishopwearmouth est un quartier de Sunderland, ville du Nord-Est de l'Angleterre. Histoire. Bishopwearmouth et sa paroisse furent fondées en 930, lorsque le roi anglais Æthelstan accorda ces terres à l'évêque de Durham. Sur l'autre rive de la Wear, Monkwearmouth avait été fondée 250 ans plus tôt.
Bishopwearmouth (/ ˌ b ɪ ʃ ə p ˈ w ɪər m aʊ θ /) is a former village and parish which now constitutes the west side of Sunderland City Centre, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England, merging with the settlement as it expanded outwards in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Bishopwearmouth is a former village and ancient parish in County Durham which now constitutes the west side of Sunderland city centre. The two merged together as Sunderland expanded outwards in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The lands on the south-side of the river became known as Bishopwearmouth, a parish that covered around twenty square miles, encompassing settlements such as Ryhope and Silksworth — now part of the modern Sunderland urban area.
During the 18th century Bishopwearmouth was a small self-contained village set within a patchwork of fields punctuated by hedgerows and trees. Cottages with courtyards and narrow garden plots...
17 avr. 2010 · Bishopwearmouth, on the south side of the River Wear, in essence became a parish around the 12th century. However, the settlement dates back to the year AD930. It was then that the Bishop of Durham gained land by the way of a grant off Athelstan.
13 juin 2024 · Bishopwearmouth or WEARMOUTH, BISHOP (St. Michael), a parish', partly in the union of Houghton-le-Spring, but chiefly in that of Sunderland, N division of Easington ward and of the county of Durham.
