Shotton, Durham

Description
Shotton, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Easington parish, Durham. The township lies adjacent to the Hartlepool and Snnderland railway, 2 miles S of Easington, and 10 from Durham, and has a station, of the name of Shotton Bridge, on the railway. It contains the villages of Shotton Colliery and Haswell Moor, which have a post and money order office under Castle Eden; telegraph office, Haswell. Acreage, 3692 of land and 94 of water and foreshore; population, 1975. There is a parish council of five members. The manor belongs to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and the Haswell Coal Co. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; gross value, £610. Patrou, the Bishop. The church was built in 1852, and consists of chancel, nave, N aisle, and turret. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.