History, Directory and Gazeteer of the Counties of Durham and Northumberland, 1828:
CHARTERS HAUGH, a village adjoining to to Fatfield, in the township of Harraton, 3 miles N.E. of Chester. The only place of worship here is a Methodist Chapel.
Hagar & Co.'s Directory of the County of Durham, 1851
CHARTERS HAUGH is a village adjoining Fatfield in the township of Harraton, and parish, union and ward of Chester-le-Street from which place it is three miles north-east. The places of worship are the chapel of ease and a Wesleyan Methodist chapel. In the census returns for 1851 it is included with Harraton
Copperas Manufacturers
Lindsay George, Chaytors Haugh and Cox Green Office, Ayres Quay
Post Office Directory of Northumberland & Durham, 1858
HARRATON is a township, containing the villages of PICTREE, CHATERS HOUGH and FATFIELD. It forms, for ecclesiastical purposes, part of the district parish of Birtley and was formed by an Order in Council in 1850, out of the parish of Chester-le-Street. Chaters Hough is situated 3 miles north-east of Chester-le-Street. There is a Wesleyan chapel here and a school where Divine service is performed on Sundays. Fatfield is situated on the north bank of the river Wear, three miles north-east from Chester-le-Street. Pictree is a hamlet 1½ miles north-east from Chester-le-Street. These townships are comprised in the Chester-le-Street mother parish and poor law union. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists. The population in 1851 was 1,614 and the acreage is 2,394. The soil and subsoil are clay. The Earl of Durham is the lord or the manor and chief landowner. The chief crops are wheat, oats and turnips. A considerable portion of Lambton Park is in this township. The castle and gardens being on the north side of the river Wear are also in the township of Harraton. The collieries here were worked out about 1835.
CHARTERS HAUGH
Trades
Atty James, day school
Fawcett Thomas, grocer and cartwright
Forster Joseph, farmer
Hoggart George, victualler, Peareth Arms
Humphrey William, agent, Copperas manufactory
Lindsay George, copperas manufacturer, office, Ayre’s Quay, Sunderland
Neville Thomas, joiner and cabinet maker
Robinson William, commercial clerk
Wanless Luke, farmer
Weatherspoon Thomas, farmer and grazier