GRINDON, a parish in the north-eastern division
of STOCKTON ward, county palatine of DURHAM, comprising
the townships of Grindon and Whitton, and
containing 314 inhabitants, of which number, 255 are
in the township of Grindon, 5 miles (N.N.W.) from
Stockton upon Tees. The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Durham, rated
in the lung's books at £4. 11. 5., endowed with £200
private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and-in the
patronage of the Master and Brethren of Sherbourn
Hospital. The church, dedicated to St. Thomas a Becket,
stands alone, about one mile and a half to the eastward
of the Durham and Stockton road; there is a stone
coffin in the churchyard, inscribed " Roger de Foulthorp."