Below is a history of Wolviston village:

Wolviston is a village and civil parish within the borough of Stockton-on-Tees and the ceremonial county of County Durham, England. It is situated to the north of Billingham. The village is a community with good road links to Stockton-on-Tees and Middlesbrough and the rest of North East England. It is home to several businesses including a post office, art gallery, florist, saddlery, international consultancy firm and riding school. Wolviston is a community with a cricket and football team, a guides association and allotment holders club. The village benefits from a parish council. The local church is dedicated to St Peter.

The village dates back to pre-Norman times and has had a variety of names such as Wolf`s Tun, Olverstona in the 11th century and Wuston in the 16th century. The origin of the name Wolviston has said to be from Saxon times. Although popularly, the village was named after the wolves that inhabited the area, Watts identifies the name as deriving from Wulfestun - or Wulf's estate - and as such named for an early landowner. Other local historians note the existence of a local dignatory named Wolvis during Saxon times and hold that his occupancy of nearby land may be the root of the present village's name.

During the mid 1830`s no less than six public house`s could be found in the high street - The Ship Inn, The White Swan, The Kings Arms, The Red Lion, The Wellington Inn and The Shoulder of Mutton.

The Ship Hotel (now The Ship Inn) is around 150 years old and was rebuilt in the late 19th centuary after the landlady at the time, a Mrs Varmer, had an argument with the brewery owner John W. Cameron. When she left to work at The Wellington over the road, an enraged John Cameron re-built the present castle-like Ship to combat the loss of trade created by the departure of this popular landlady.

Anyone interested in the history of our village you can purchase An illustrated History of Wolviston village through the passage of time by Adrian Liddell  at the Wolviston post office it is an excellent read.