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Shotton Colliery, County Durham: People and Places of 1879

 Enjoy a glimpse of history about Shotton Colliery in County Durham, England, UK.

The Post Office Directory of Durham and Northumberland

by Kelly and Company

Published in 1879



SHOTTON with SHOTTON COLLIERY form a township, in Easington parish, 10 miles from Durham and 12 south from Sunderland and about 2 from Thornley railway station, in Easington union, Seaham Harbour, county court district, rural deanery of Easington, archdeaconry and diocese of Durham. Here is the church of St. Saviour, a handsome stone building, erected in 1852 and consecrated in 1854; it consists of chancel, nave and north aisle, porch and vestry, and will seat about 400 persons. The register dates from the year 1854. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £320, in the gift of the Bishop of the diocese, and held by the Rev. Thomas Frederick Hardwich, Medical Associate of King’s College, London. There is an extensive school, chiefly supported by the Colliery Company; also a small Endowed school at the agricultural village of Shotton, founded by Edward Walton, esq.; value of the endowment £20, with residence for the master. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have commodious chapels at Shotton Colliery. Shotton Colliery village, about 1 mile west from Old Shotton, is chiefly the abode of colliers. Shotton Colliery is very extensive, and is the chief support of the village. Here are also brick and tile works. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are the lords of the manor. The chief landowners are John Burdon, esq. J.P. the Colliery Company and Anthony Wilkinson, esq. The soil is clayey and sandy; subsoil, clay and gravelly. Crops, wheat, oats and potatoes. The acreage is 3,701; rateable value, £7,212; the population in 1871 was 3,300.

POST & MONEY ORDER OFFICE & Savings Bank, Shotton Colliery.—William Anderson, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Castle Eden station at 8 a.m.; dispatched at 4.50 p.m

Colliery Schools, William MacIsaac, master; Mrs. Mary Martin, mistress

Endowed School, Henry Fenwick, master

Shotton Colliery Railway Station, Thomas Winter, station master

Dormand Thomas, Shotton colliery

Dunscombe George, Shotton colliery

Edgar Llewellyn

Hardwich Rev. Thos. Frederick [vicar], The Vicarage, Shotton colliery

Hudson Ralph Milbanke, J.P. Shotton hall

Scott Andrew, Shotton colliery

Scott Joseph, Shotton colliery

Atkinson Ralph, draper & boot & shoe warehouse, Shotton colliery

Atkinson Thomas William, draper & grocer, Shotton colliery

Alderson James, farmer, Low hills

Broderick Anthny. grocer, Shotton collry

Bullock Wm. generl. dlr. Shotton colliry

Burdiss John, Albert inn, Shotton colliery

Curry Hugh, boot ma. Shotton colliery

Curry James, farmer, Eden hall

Curry Wm. Colliery inn, Shotton colliery

Davey Hen. shopkeeper, Shotton colliery

Dormand Thos. viewer, Shotton colliery

Dunscombe Geo. surgn. Shotton colliery

English George, farmer, Howletch

Fenwick Thomas, farmer

Ferguson Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Gilmore John, butcher

Harrison Thos. greengro. Shotton colliery

Hepplewhite George, butcher, Shotton colliery

Hindmarsh Thos. boot ma. Shotton collry

Hornsby John Hutchinson, Black Horse, Shotton colliery

Hornsby Thomas, blacksmith

Hynd William, farmer, Cotsford grange

Jameson Anthony, wheelwright

Johnson John, miller

Joicey Thomas, furniture broker

Mawston George, grocer & draper, Shotton colliery

Miller John, beer retailr. Shotton colliery

Neason Johnson, tailor, Shotton colliery

Noble Joseph, grocer, Shotton colliery

Noble Lowes, grocer, Shotton colliery

Parker John, farmer

Parkin Thomas, Commercial inn, Shotton colliery

Proud John, Black Bull

Reed Robert, butcher, Shotton colliery

Scurr Robert, farmer, Acre Ridge

Selby Joseph, farmer, Edder Acres

Smith Francis, beer retlr. Shotton colliery

Stephenson Matthew, butcher, Shotton colliery

Storey Robert, farmer, Fleaming field, Shotton colliery

Sweeting George, farmer

Taylor Richard Preston, Beehive inn, Shotton colliery

Taylor George, farmer, Hall farm

Walker Teasdale, farmer, White house, Shotton colliery


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