Greatham
Parish in the County of Durham
Etymology
The parish of Greatham includes the townships of Claxton and Greatham. The detached township of Oughton or Owton is dealt with under Stranton. In the S and E of the parish where Greatham Creek flows into the Tees the ground is flat and alluvial. Most of the rest of the parish which rises to 100' is gravel on a subsoil of Keuper marls. In 1850 the chief crops were wheat, oats potatoes and turnips. Saltworks were an important industry, VCH II 294.
Major Settlements
Other places in this Parish
Other OS name
- House
- Marsh Ho Cottage, Marsh Ho Lane
- North Close
- Pinfold
- Prospect Fm
- Pudding Nook
- Rose Villa
- Salt Works
- Saltaire Terrace
- Seal Sands
- The Slime
- Station Lane
- Stockton Rd
- Thorn Tree, Thorn Tree Lane
- West Meadows
- Windmill
- Grange
- Springwell Ho
- West Pasture Fm
- Ashfield Ho
- Brine Reservoir
- Carnell Well
- Claxton Bridge
- Cloff Bridge
- Cote Hill
- The Cottage
- East Field
- Fence Gate
- Field Ho
- The Fleet
- Graythorp
- Greatham Beck, Greatham Bridge, Greatham Cottages, Greatham Creek, Greatham Creek Bridge, Greatham Fleet, Greatham Hall, Greatham Hospital, Greatham Hospital Lands, Greatham Station, Greatham Viaduct, Greatham Villa
- Greenabella
- Grove Ho
- Infant School
- Hill Ho
- Hospital Fm
- Micklemire Lane
- Parkhurst's Hospital
- Claxton Blue House
- Marsh Ho
- Middle Field
- Low Claxton
- Methodist Chapel
- Owton Fens