Description
Streatlam and Stainton, a township in Barnard Castle parish, Durham. It comprises the village of Stainton and Streatlam Castle and Park, and lies about 2 miles from Barnard Castle station on the N.E.R. There is a post office of the name of Streatlam under Darlington; money order and telegraph office, Barnard Castle. Acreage, 2938; population, 299. Streatlam Castle, the seat of the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, who is lord of the manor and principal landowner, stands in a well-timbered park, is in the Italian style, and contains some fine pictures by old masters. Divine service is conducted in the national school at Stainton, where there is also a small Wesleyan chapel. There are several freestone quarries.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
