Bishopton, Durham

Description
Bishopton, a village, a township, and a parish in Durham. The township lies 2 miles SSW of Stillington railway station, and 5 1/2 WNW of Stockton-upon-Tees. It has a post office under Ferry Hill; money order office, Carlton Iron Works; telegraph office, Stockton. The parish includes also the townships of Little Stainton and East and West Newbiggin. Acreage, 2178 ; population of the civil parish, 357; of the ecclesiastical, 460. There are vestiges of an entrenchment, supposed to have surrounded the mansion of Roger de Con-yers, who, in the time of King Stephen, resisted and overcame William Cumyn, an insurrectionary and devastating pretender to the see of Durham. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; net value, £240 with residence. The church is in good order.