Description
Foxton and Shotton, a township in Sedgefield parish, Durham, near the Clarence railway, 7 miles NW by W of Stockton-on-Tees, and 3 from Sedgefield station on the N.E.R. Post, money order, and telegraph office, Sedgefield, under Ferry Hill. Acreage, 1803; population, 52. Viscount Boyne is the sole landowner. The manor belonged to the Knights of St John, and passed to the Russells of Brance-peth. For ecclesiastical purposes the township was joined to Stillington in 1886.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
