Description
Offerton, a township in Penshaw ecclesiastical parish, Houghton-le-Spring parish, Durham, near the river Wear, 4 miles W by S of Sunderland, and 1 1/2 mile from Hylton station on the N.E.R. Post town, Sunderland; money order and telegraph office, Hylton. Acreage, including part of the hamlet of Cox Green, 928 of land and 13 of water; population, 287. The Earl of Durham is lord of the manor and principal landowner.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
