STRANTON, a parish in the north-eastern division of STOCKTON ward, county palatine of DURHAM, comprising the townships of Brierton, Seaton-Carew, and Stranton, and containing 704 inhabitants, of which number, 371 are in the township of Stranton, 5 miles (S.W. by W.) from Hartlepool. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Durham, rated in the king's books at £ 17. 16. Of., and in the patronage of Sir M. W. Ridley, Bart. The church, dedicated to All Saints, exhibits specimens of various styles of architecture. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A great quantity of limestone is here quarried and burnt into lime. The village is situated on the south side of Hartlepool harbour; a school was erected by subscription in 1777, before which period the north porch of the church was used as a school-room. An immense quantity of human bones was discovered in draining a morass bordering, on the Slake, supposed to have been those of the Scots who fell at the siege of Hartlepool, in 1644.