New Shildon, County Durham: Historic Area Assessment
Author(s): Lucy Jessop, Richard Pougher
This Historic Area Assessment considers the development and buildings of New Shildon, County Durham, from the foundation of the town in about 1825 to the present day. Its first buildings were constructed when the Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR) opened for business, and New Shildon became the home of its railway works for the next 150 years. Streets of houses were swiftly constructed on both sides of the railway’s mainline, and Soho Works was privately built for the manufacture of locomotives (but later taken over by the S&DR). Housing continued to be built during the 19t h and 20th centuries, alongside the church, chapels, institutes, collieries, factories, schools and shops that the growing town required. Shildon Works remained the area’s principal employer until closure in 1984; it is now the Hackworth Industrial Estate.
- Report Number:
- 27/2023
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 150
- Keywords:
- Historic Area Assessment Railway
