In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England
and Wales described Shotton like this: SHOTTON, a township and a
chapelry in Easington parish, Durham. The township lies adjacent
to the Hartlepooland Sunderland railway, 2 miles S of Easington;
has a side-station, of the name of Shotton-Bridge, on the
railway; contains the village of Shotton-Colliery, which has a
post-office at Castle Eden; and extends eastward to the coast.
Acres, 3,853; of which 173 are water. Real property, £4,818; of
which £1,200 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 1,607; in 1861, 1,871.
Houses, 355. The manor belongs to the Bishop of Durham. ...
There are brick and tile works.The chapelry includes also part
of Haswell township. Pop., 3,600. The living is a vicarage in
the diocese of Durham. Value, £300.* Patron, the Bishop of D.
The principal church was built in 1852; and a chapel of ease at
Haswell in 1867. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive
Methodists, and a colliery school and library. A Vision of
Britain through Time