Description
Stillington, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Durham, with a station on the N.E.R., 6 miles WNW of Stockton-on-Tees. Post town, Ferry Hill; money order office, Carlton Ironworks; telegraph office, Stillington railway station. Acreage of township, 1153; population, 65. The ecclesiastical parish was formed in 1872 and extended in 1886. It comprises the townships of Stillington, Whitton, and Foxton-cum-Shotton. Population, 1198. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; net value, £228 with residence. Patron, the Bishop. The church is in Whitton township, was erected in 1879, is in the Gothic style, and consists of nave, S aisle, small transept, S porch, and bell turret. The vicarage was erected in 1884.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
