Cemeteries · Scottish Lowlands
Stranton Cemetery
Stranton Cemetery is a cemetery in the United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 30 min–1 h
- Nearest railway station
- Seaton Carew · 1.9 km
- Free entry
- Dog-friendly
About
Stranton Cemetery is a cemetery in the Scottish Lowlands of architectural and local-history note. The site is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest. It sits within the Hartlepool parliamentary constituency. The nearest railway station is Seaton Carew, about 1.9 km away. Postcode area TS25.
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Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: Teesmouth and Cleveland Coast SSSI
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Stranton is an area of south Hartlepool in the borough of Hartlepool, County Durham, England. It is a former village and parish. The ancient parish boundaries were the North Sea 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, Seaton Carew, and Brierton. The area’s name was last used as an electoral ward name in the 2011 UK Census, 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.
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Background
History
Samuel A. Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848) says: Lewis noted that the parish church 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 benefices, 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. On 1 April 1937 the parish was abolished and merged with West Hartlepool and Dalton Piercy. 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…
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- Coordinates
- 54.6667, -1.2258
- District
- Hartlepool
- Parish
- Hartlepool, unparished area
- Postcode
- TS25 5JA
- Parliamentary constituency
- Hartlepool
- Nearest railway station
- Seaton Carew — 1.9 km
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Stranton Cemetery?
- Stranton Cemetery is in the Scottish Lowlands, United Kingdom (postcode TS25 5JA), in the parish of Hartlepool, unparished area.
- Is Stranton Cemetery a protected site?
- Yes — Stranton Cemetery is part of the Teesmouth and Cleveland Coast SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest.
- How do I get to Stranton Cemetery?
- The nearest railway station is Seaton Carew, about 1.9 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode TS25 5JA.