Description
Moorsley, a township in Houghton-le-Spring parish, Durham, 4f miles NE of Durham, and U mile from Hetton station on the N.E.E. Post town, Fence Houses; telegraph office, Hetton-le-Hole. Acreage, 603; population, 1108. The Dean and Chapter of Durham are lords of the manor. Some of the inhabitants are employed in collieries, quarries, and firebrick works. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels and a mission chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
