Stranton is an area of south

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in the

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, County Durham, England. It is a former village and parish. Elwick Road, Stranton, Hartlepool (geograph 4065989)

The ancient parish boundaries were the

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to the east, Greatham Creek, an arm of the Tees, to the south, the parish of Greatham to the south-west, and the Greatham Beck to the west. In 1831, the parish contained the townships of Stranton,

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, and Brierton. The area’s name was last used as an electoral ward name in the

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, with a population of 6,105. It covered most of the town centre with parts of Stranton in the south west of the ward. For the 2015 general election Burn Valley, Headland & Harbour and Victoria replaced the majority of the former ward area.

History

All Saints Church, Stranton (geograph 4257414)

Samuel A. Lewis's ''A Topographical Dictionary of England'' (1848) says: Church Row, Stranton, West Hartlepool (5815379836)

Lewis noted that the

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was on high ground in the centre of the village and that its tower was a landmark for seamen, and that there was also a Wesleyan Methodist chapel. He reported two

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s, Stranton and Seaton-Carew, and two schools, an almost new National School in the hamlet of Middleton, built in 1840, and a small endowed school in Stranton teaching fifteen children. In draining a morass at Stranton, a large quantity of human bones was found, which may have been the remains of the Scots killed at the Siege of Hartlepool in 1644.

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(1913–1963), boxer *Agnes Rudd (1861–1939), artist * Lt. General Sir William Marshall (1865–1939), soldier

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