Newbottle, Durham

Description
Newbottle, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Houghton-le-Spring parish, Durham. The village stands 1 1/2 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.