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Fatfield is a small village in Tyne and Wear, located in the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough. It forms part of the Washington new town. North-East England is one of the nine official regions of England and comprises the combined area of Northumberland, County Durham, Tyne and Wear and a small part of North Yorkshire. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Red_pog. ... Statistics Population: 55,454 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: NZ3157 Administration District: Sunderland Metropolitan county: Tyne and Wear Region: North East England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Tyne and Wear Historic county: County Durham Services Police force: Northumbria Police Fire and rescue: Tyne and Wear... The City of Sunderland is a metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear in North East England. ... Houghton and Washington East is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... The UK postal system runs on a system of alphanumeric codes, or postcodes. ... Tyne and Wear is a metropolitan county in the North East of England around the mouths of the Rivers Tyne and Wear. ... The City of Sunderland is a metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear in North East England. ... Statistics Population: 55,454 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: NZ3157 Administration District: Sunderland Metropolitan county: Tyne and Wear Region: North East England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Tyne and Wear Historic county: County Durham Services Police force: Northumbria Police Fire and rescue: Tyne and Wear...
It had national publicity in the 1990's when the village was challenged to lose weight on the Fatfield Diet as part of a television programme.
Dorothy's father was a butcher in the village of Chartershaugh adjacent to Fatfield.
William and Dorothy must have been much attached to the Fatfield district as they and those of their children who died in the early years while they were living in Bishopwearmouth, were all buried at the parish church of St Mary's, Chester-le-Street.
James Clark was born in 1818 in Fatfield, Co. Durham, was baptized on 23 Aug 1818 in St Mary's, Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham, died in Farrington Row, Bishopwearmouth, Co. Durham and was buried on 27 Apr 1834 in St Mary's, Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham
They were about to return to Fatfield when superintendent Harnby of Gateshead, at the head of several policemen, suggested they leave not by Front Street but by Low Chare.
Back in Fatfield, they were given a rousing welcome because of their defeat of the police.
An old Fatfield miner was asked, "Are the women trying to gain popularity like the Suffragettes?" "Wey, no, man", he answered, "It was a jolly sight mair serious for them than it is for the men.
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