Durham

Durham, an ancient city on the Wear, with a noble cathedral and a castle, once the residence of the bishop, now a university seat, in the heart of a county of the same name (1,106), rich in coal-fields, and with numerous busy manufacturing towns.

Population (circa 1900) given as 15,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)