Chilton, Durham
Historical Description
Chilton, a township in Merrington parish, and part of the ecclesiastical district of Ferry Hill, Durham, adjacent to the Weardale railway, 6½ miles E of Bishop-Auckland. Post town, money order, and telegraph office, Ferry Hill. Acreage, 2422; population, 1536. Chilton Hall is the residence of the Fenwick family. An iron church, opened in 1878, is a chapel of ease; there are also Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | County Durham | |
Civil parish | Merrington | |
Poor Law union | Sedgefield | |
Ward | Darlington |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Chilton from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for County Durham is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Chilton 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: