Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for EBCHESTER

EBCHESTER, a township and a chapelry in Lanchester parish, Durham. The township lies on Watling-street, the Consett railway, and the river Derwent, at the boundary with Northumberland, 11½ miles SW by W of Gateshead; and has a post office under Gateshead and a railway station. Acres, 550. Real property, £4, 458; of which £2, 530 are in mines, and £26 in quarries. Pop., 697. Houses, 109. The property is sub-divided. A monastery was founded here before 660, by Ebba, afterwards abbess of Coldingham, and was destroyed by the Danes. Ebchester was known as the Derventio of the Notitia, and afterwards as Vindomara; and it retains traces of Watling-street. The chapelry is of less extent than the township. Pop., 537. The living is a rectory in the dio. of Durham. Value, £200.* Patron, not reported. The church stands within an ancient camp, where many Roman remains have been found; and was recently in disrepair. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: County Durham AncC
Place: Ebchester

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