SHOTTON with SHOTTON COLLIERY form a township, with a station on the Sunderland and Hartlepool branch of the North Eastern railway, 10 miles from Durham and 12 south from Sunderland, in the South Eastern division of the county, Castle Eden petty sessional division, Easington union, Hartlepool county court district, rural deanery of Easington and archdeaconry and diocese of Durham. The church of St. Saviour, at Shotton Colliery, erected in 1852 and consecrated in 1854, is a building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, porch, vestry and a western turret containing one bell: there are sittings for about 400 persons. The register dates from the year 1854. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £590, with house, in the gift of the Bishop of Durham, and held since 1867 by the Rev. Thomas Frederick Hardwich, medical associate of King’s College, London. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels at Shotton Colliery, a village about 1 mile West from Old Shotton, chiefly the abode of colliers. Here are brick and tile works, but the colliery is not now working. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who are the lords of the manor, the Rev. John Burdon J.P. the Colliery Company, Anthony Wilkinson esq. and Lord Northbourne are the principal landowners. The soil is clayey and sandy; subsoil, clay and gravel and limestone. Crops, wheat, oats, barley, turnips and potatoes, with a large area in pasture. The acreage is 3,701; rateable value, £4,959; the population in 1881 was 2,131.

Schools

Colliery (mixed & infants), built in 1845 & since enlarged for 430 children; average attendance, 200 boys & girls & 90 infants.

Shotton Endowed, founded by Edward Whalton esq. 1 value of the endowment £22, with residence for the master.