Stranton

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Stranton is a former village and parish in the south-east of County Durham, now part of the Borough of Hartlepool, England.

The boundaries of the ancient parish were the North Sea to the east, Greatham Creek, an arm of the Tees, to the south, the parish of Greatham to the south-west, and the Greatham Beck to the west. In 1831, the parish contained the townships of Stranton, Seaton Carew, and Brierton.[1]

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Samuel A. Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848) says:

STRANTON (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Stockton, N. division of Stockton ward, S. division of the county of Durham; containing, with the townships of Brierton and Seaton-Carew, 2106 inhabitants, of whom 1491 are in Stranton township, 2½ miles (S. W. by W.) from Hartlepool, on the road to Stockton. Since the formation of the harbour at Hartlepool, this place has become the scene of busy employment in iron foundries, ship-building yards, and other works connected with maritime trade. A harbour and docks were opened at Stranton in the summer of 1847. Limestone abounds, and used formerly to be quarried to a great extent, and the lime shipped coastwise. The Stockton and Hartlepool railway approaches close to the sea-coast at New Stranton, and is carried along the verge of the sea by an embankment of puddled clay.[2]

Lewis noted that the parish church was on high ground in the centre of the village and that its tower was a landmark for seamen, and that there was also a Wesleyan Methodist chapel. He reported two benefices, Stranton and Seaton-Carew, and two schools, an almost new National School in the hamlet of Middleton, built in 1840, and a small endowed school in Stranton teaching fifteen children.[2]

In draining a morass at Stranton, a large quantity of human bones was found, which may have been the remains of the Scots killed at the Siege of Hartlepool in 1644.[2]

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  1. ^ “Parishes: Stranton” in A History of the County of Durham, Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1928), pp. 365-376
  2. ^ a b c Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848) Stranton All Saints

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Coordinates: 54°39′58″N 1°13′26″W / 54.666°N 1.224°W / 54.666; -1.224

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