Throston, Durham

Historical Description

Throston, a township in Hart parish, Durham, partly within the borough of West Hartlepool, and 2 miles from West Hartlepool railway station. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) under West Hartlepool. Acreage, 1632 of land and 99 of foreshore; population, CO 83. The West Hartlepool workhouse is in this township. There is a Wesleyan chapel. See WEST HARTLEPOOL.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Throston from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Throston)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for County Durham is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Throston are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering county Durham online:

• Hartlepool Mail
• Northern Echo
• Durham County Advertiser
• Teesdale Mercury