Newbottle, Durham
Historical Description
Newbottle, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Houghton-le-Spring parish, Durham. The village stands 1½ mile NNW of Houghton-le-Spring, and 2 miles NNE of Fence Houses station on the N.E.R., has a post and money order office under Fence Houses; telegraph office, Houghton-le-Spring; and is inhabited chiefly by colliers. Acreage of township, 1454; population, 5552. The manor belongs to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and the Earl of Durham is chief landowner. The ecclesiastical parish contains the colliery villages of Sunniside, Success, and Philadelphia, and the hamlet of Bunker Hill. Population, 4115. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; gross value, £312 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Durham. The church was built in 1850 and rebuilt in 1886, and is a fine stone structure in the Early Decorated style. The parsonage was built in 1866. There are 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 | Houghton le Spring | |
Poor Law union | Houghton-le-Spring | |
Ward | Easington |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Newbottle from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Newbottle)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for County Durham is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Newbottle 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: