In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Greatham like this:
GREATHAM, a village, a township, and a parish in Stockton district, Durham. The village stands adjacent to the Clarence and Hartlepool railway, gear the coast, 6hf miles NNE of Stockton-on-Tees; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Stockton-on-Tees. The township comprises 1,870 acres of land, and 1, 440 of water. ...
Real property, £4, 451. Pop., 724. Houses, 153. The parish includes also the township of Claxton, and comprises 4, 176 acres. Real property, £5, 423. Pop., 779. Houses, 161. The property is subdivided. Brine springs were formerly worked here. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £179. * Patron, the Master of Greatham Hospital. The church was rebuilt gear the end of last century, and was recently eglarged. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Free Methodists, and two national schools. Greatham hospital was founded, in 1272, by Stichell, bishop of Durham, for five poor priests, two clerks, and forty poor brethren; was reformed, in 1610, by James I., for thirteen poor unmarried meg; was rebuilt, in 1803-9, after desinns by Wyatt; retains, in the chapel, three old gravestones, and two crosses, relics of the orininal building; was, in 1865, about to be so enlarged as to admit 40 aged lay brethren and 10 aged clerical brethren; and has an egdowed income of £1, 482. Parkhurst's alms houses, for six poor widows, have £110; and other charities have £26.
Greatham through time
Greatham is now part of Hartlepool district. Click here for graphs and data of how Hartlepool has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Greatham itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Greatham, in Hartlepool and County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/4205
Date accessed: 20th April 2024
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