Pelton, Durham

Historical Description

Pelton, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Chester-le-Street parish, Durham. The village stands 7 miles N of Durham, 8 S of Newcastle, and 2¼ NW of Chester-le-Street station on the N.E.R., and has a station on the Annfield Plain branch of the N.E.R., three-quarters of a mile from the village, and near to the colliery village of Pelton Fell. There is a post and money order office under Chester-le-Street; telegraph office, Pelton Fell. The township comprises 1078 acres; population, 4296. There is a parish council consisting of fifteen members. The ecclesiastical parish is more extensive than the township, comprising part of the townships of Chester-le-Street, Pelton, Urpeth, and the whole of the township of Ouston; was constituted in 1842, and has a population of 6034. The chief employment of the inhabitants is in coal mines, of which there are many in the neighbourhood. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; net value, £244 with residence. Patron, the Rector of Chester-le-Street. The church was built in 1842, is in. The Gothic style, and consists of chancel, nave, and turret. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.

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 Pelton from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Pelton 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