SHILDON, a village, a townsliip, and a chapelry, in Auckland-St. Andrew parish, Durham. The village stands on the Stockton and Darlington railway, 1¼ mile E of Watling-street, and 3 SSE of Bishop-Auckland; and has a station with telegraph on the railway, and a post-office‡ under Darlington. The township contains also the hamlet of New Shildon, and comprises 552 acres. Real property, £5,629; of which £2,560 are in mines, £72 in quarries, and £200 on the railway. Pop. in 1851, 2,144; in 1861, 2,947. Houses, 647. The manor is divided among three.—The chapelry was constituted in 1837. Rated property, about £14,000. Pop. in 1861, 4,458. Houses, 955. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £420.* Patron, the Bishop of Durham. The church was built in 1834. There are chapels for Wes1eyans, Primitive Methodists, and U. Free Methodists, and national and British schools.

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