HYLTON, a township in the parish of MONK-WEARMOUTH,
eastern division of CHESTER ward, county
palatine of DURHAM, 3 miles (W.N.W.) from Sunderland,
containing 320 inhabitants. The castle, an ancient
baronial mansion, has > been greatly modernised,
-the centre only possessing any claim to antiquity; a
little-to the northward there is a small but elegant private
chapel. It was the residence of the ancient family
of Hylton from the time of King Athelstan to the year
1746; the building has the arms of the Hyltons and
their alliances engraven on it in numerous places.