Offerton, Durham
Historical Description
Offerton, a township in Penshaw ecclesiastical parish, Houghton-le-Spring parish, Durham, near the river Wear, 4 miles W by S of Sunderland, and 1½ mile from Hylton station on the N.E.R. Post town, Sunderland; money order and telegraph office, Hylton. Acreage, including part of the hamlet of Cox Green, 928 of land and 13 of water; population, 287. The Earl of Durham is lord of the manor and principal landowner.
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 Offerton 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 Offerton 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: