RAINTON (EAST), a township in the parish of HOUGHTON-le-SPRING, northern division of EASINGTON ward, county palatine of DURHAM, 5 miles (N.E.) from Durham, containing 67! inhabitants, many of whom are employed in the neighbouring coal mines, of which, Plain pit, in 1817, and again in 1823, exploded, amd destroyed about eighty human beings. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.