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Winlaton in Durham County England History and GeographyWINLATON, a parochial district in the western division of CHESTER ward, county palatine of DURHAM, 6¼ miles (W. by S.) from Gateshead, containing 3295 inhabitants. The church was finished in 1828, at an expense of £2500, of which sum £2000. 11. 5. was defrayed by the parliamentary commissioners: it is in the later English style of architecture, and contains eight hundred sittings, of which six hundred and thirty-seven are free. The village occupies an elevated site between the rivers Tyne and Darwent, and owes its rise to the extensive iron works, removed hither from Sunderland by Sir Ambrose Crawley, about 1690, for carrying on which the neighbourhood affords peculiar advantages, in the abundance of coal, the facility of water carriage, &c. Edge-tools, files, and nail-rods, are the principal articles manufactured; and those of a heavier kind, such as anchors, anvils, pumps, and cylinders for steam-engines, chain cables, spades, shovels, saws, and cast-iron utensils of every description, are made at Swalwell. A code of laws for the workmen was also established, which, in a great measure, has superseded the general law, and under which a court of arbitrators sits every ten weeks, by whom justice is promptly administered, at a very trifling expense. The principal manufacturers (Crawley, Millington, and Co.) have large warehouses in Thamesstreet, London, and at Greenwich, and constantly employ two vessels, of about three hundred tons' burden each, in transporting their goods thither and to Newcastle for sale. A chapel was built here, in 1705, on the site of a more ancient one, which is said to have been demolished in 1569; but having been suffered to go to ruin, a spacious school-room was erected, in 1816, on the spot, in which divine service was occasionally performed by the rector of Ryton, to which parish Winlaton formerly belonged, till the new church was built, when it was made parochial. At the village of Blaydon, in this township, there is a place of worship for Methodists; and there are works for refining lead on the banks of the Tyne. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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