SHINCLIFFE, a village, a township, and a chapelry in St. Oswald parish, Durhamshire. The village stands on the river Wear, adjacent to the Northeastern railway, 2 miles SE of Durham; is inhabited chiefly by colliers; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Durham.-The township comprises 1,303 acres. Real property, £9,253; of which £4,507 are in mines, and £218 in the railway. Pop. in 1851, 1,175; in 1861, 1,544. Houses, 298. The property is subdivided.—The chapelry was constituted in 1831. Pop. in 1861, 1,620. Houses, 310. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £98.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Durham. The church was built in 1826; and schools, in the early English style, were built in 1866.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))