Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SHOTTON

SHOTTON, a township and a chapelry in Easington parish, Durham. The township lies adjacent to the Hartlepooland Sunderland railway, 2 miles S of Easington; has a side-station, of the name of Shotton-Bridge, on the railway; contains the village of Shotton-Colliery, which has a post-office at Castle Eden; and extends eastward to the coast. Acres, 3,853; of which 173 are water. Real property, £4,818; of which £1,200 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 1,607; in 1861, 1,871. Houses, 355. The manor belongs to the Bishop of Durham. There are brick and tile works.—The chapelry includes also part of Haswell township. Pop., 3,600. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £300.* Patron, the Bishop of D. The principal church was built in 1852; and a chapel of ease at Haswell in 1867. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, and a colliery school and library.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Easington AP/CP       Shotton Tn/CP       County Durham AncC
Place: Shotton

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