Official Name: | Whitton |
Label Position: | top |
Country: | England |
Region: | North East England |
Civil Parish: | Stillington and Whitton |
Lieutenancy England: | Durham |
Post Town: | STOCKTON-ON-TEES |
Postcode Area: | TS |
Postcode District: | TS21 |
Os Grid Reference: | NZ383228 |
Coordinates: | 54.599°N -1.408°W |
Static Image Name: | Whitton Village. - geograph.org.uk - 189894.jpg |
Whitton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Stillington and Whitton, the borough of Stockton-on-Tees and the ceremonial county of Durham, England. It is situated to the north west of Stockton-on-Tees, near Stillington and Thorpe Thewles.
Approximately to the south of the village is Whitton Bridge Pasture, a 3.2ha Site of Special Scientific Interest notable for its species-rich grassland.
Whitton was formerly a township in the parish of Grindon,[1] from 1866 Whitton was a civil parish in its own right,[2] on 1 April 1983 part of the parish of Stillington was merged with Whitton,[3] on 1 July 1983 the merged parish was renamed "Stillington & Whitton".[4] In 1961 the parish of Whitton (prior to the merge) had a population of 913.[5]