Eggleston
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 Eggleston
Eggleston shown within County Durham |
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| OS grid reference | NY984227 |
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| Unitary authority | County Durham |
| Ceremonial county | County Durham |
| Region | North East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Durham |
| Fire | County Durham and Darlington |
| Ambulance | North East |
| EU Parliament | North East England |
| UK Parliament | Bishop Auckland |
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Eggleston is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated in Teesdale, a few miles north-west of Barnard Castle.[1]
Etymology
The second element of Eggleston is Old English tün, 'enclosure, estate, settlement'. The first element could be the Cumbric word represented today by Welsh eglwys 'church'. However, the first element could also be from the Old Norse personal name Egill or an Anglo-Saxon personal name like Ecgwulf or Ecgel, in which case the name means 'Ecgel's estate'.[2]
History
The village is first mentioned in tax records of 1196.[3] The remains of ridge and furrow from the medieval period can still be seen. Many of the cottages date from the 18th century and were built by the Society of Friends, who owned lead mines in the area. Forty men were employed as miners until 1904 when the company closed the smelting mills.[4]
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- ↑ http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/3006
- ↑ Bethany Fox, 'The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland', The Heroic Age, 10 (2007), http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox.html (appendix at http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox-appendix.html).
- ↑ http://www.keystothepast.info/Pages/pgDetail.aspx?PRN=D6788
- ↑ http://www.explorenorthpennines.org.uk/sites/default/files/activity/downloads/enp059.pdf
