Bishopton, Durham
Historical Description
Bishopton, a village, a township, and a parish in Durham. The township lies 2 miles SSW of Stillington railway station, and 5½ WNW of Stockton-upon-Tees. It has a post office under Ferry Hill; money order office, Carlton Iron Works; telegraph office, Stockton. The parish includes also the townships of Little Stainton and East and West Newbiggin. Acreage, 2178; population of the civil parish, 357; of the ecclesiastical, 460. There are vestiges of an entrenchment, supposed to have surrounded the mansion of Roger de Conyers, who, in the time of King Stephen, resisted and overcame William Cumyn, an insurrectionary and devastating pretender to the see of Durham. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; net value, £240 with residence. The church is in good order.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | County Durham | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Bishopton St. Peter | |
Poor Law union | Sedgefield | |
Ward | Stockton |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bishopton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bishopton (St. Peter))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for County Durham is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Bishopton 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: