Description
Claxton, a township in Greatham parish, Durham, 6 miles NNE of Stockton-upon-Tees, and 1 1/4 from Greatham station on the N.E.R. Post, money order, and telegraph office, Greatham (R.S.O.) Acreage, 881; population, 48. Claxton the antiquary was a native.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
