[2] For the 2015 general election Burn Valley, Headland & Harbour and Victoria replaced the majority of the former ward area.

Since the formation of the harbour at Hartlepool, this place has become the scene of busy employment in iron foundries, ship-building yards, and other works connected with maritime trade.

The Stockton and Hartlepool railway approaches close to the sea-coast at New Stranton, and is carried along the verge of the sea by an embankment of puddled clay.

[3]Lewis noted that the parish church was on high ground in the centre of the village and that its tower was a landmark for seamen, and that there was also a Wesleyan Methodist chapel.

[5] In draining a morass at Stranton, a large quantity of human bones was found, which may have been the remains of the Scots killed at the Siege of Hartlepool in 1644.