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Lanchester is a village and civil parish in County Durham, England, 8 miles (13 km) west of Durham and 5 miles (8 km) from Consett. It had a population at the 2011 Census of 4,054. [1] Although there was a small drift mine on the edge of the village which closed in the 1970s, Lanchester's economy was mainly based on agriculture. It is now a ...
Jan 1, 2024 · There’s so much to discover across Lanchester, and the surrounding villages of Lanley Park, Esh and Brancepeth. From family favourites like the historic Ushaw College, to miles of countryside paths and tranquil walking routes.
Lanchester is a village and civil parish in County Durham, England, 8 miles west of Durham and 5 miles from Consett. It had a population at the 2011 Census of 4,054. Map. Directions.
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- Parish of Lanchester.
- Lanchester.
- Ford, Or Green Well Ford.
- Manor-House.
- Coldpike-Hill.
- Greencroft
- Holmside.
- Langley.
- Ash, Or Eshe.
- Cornsey and Hedley.
The extensive Parish of Lanchester is bounded on the North by the Parish of Ryton and by the Chapelry of Tanfield; by the Parish of Chester-le-Street on the East; by Witton Gilbert, and by St. Oswalds, in the suburbs of Durham, on the South-East; by Brancepath and Wolsingham on the South and South-West; and by the Parishes of Stanhope and Muggleswi...
The modern village stands half a mile to the West of the Station, in a warm sheltered vale watered by the Smalhope-burn (fn. 33). Under Boldon Book Lanchester appears as one of the great manors of the See of Durham. In Langchestre are forty-one oxgangs, each consisting of eight acres. Twenty tenants in villenage pay for each of these oxgangs thirty...
Ford, not specially noticed in Boldon-Book, occupies a considerable portion of the description of the copyhold manor of Lanchester under the Survey. “Bond-lands at Ford—John Shephird holds a messuage and twenty-six acres and a half, once Richard Morley's, and used to mow a portion of the lord's meadow in aid of the cottagers, and to win and lead th...
“The Prior of Hexham holds a messuage called Maydenstanhall and seventy acres, sometime belonging to Simon de Ashe, by. knight's service, and at the four terms 13s. 4d.” Hatfield's Survey. After the dissolution, by letters patent, 25. March; 7 Edw. VI. 15.., the Crown granted inter alia to Simon Welbury and Christopher Morland, “the messuage called...
The name bears with it its own evident derivation, yet has been frequently corrupted into Coldpigg-hill and Cowpigg-hill. By charter without date William de Acley granted to St. Cuthbert and his Monks of Durham ad fdbricam Ecclesiæ, the third part of his land of Kolpihill, with the toft and croft which Geoffrey held. By Ind. 1312, John de Tyckhill,...
Scarcely a mile to the North of Lanchester. The Hall, a spacious handsome mansion built by the Claverings after 1670, stands on the Southern slope of a hill, surrounded by luxuriant plantations of lofty forest trees, and commanding a prospect southwards over the village and vale of Lanchester. Greencroft is mentioned in Boldon Book under Lanchester...
Holmside (fn. 112), the ancient seat of the Tempests and Whittinghams, lies near the South Eastern verge of the Parish. The Hall seems to have belonged to a class of mansions inferior to the peel or castle, yet built with some view to defence. Part of the old court-yard is remaining; the Chapel forms the North side, and its West window is still per...
“Arco, the steward, holds Langley as well for his service performed to Henry, sometime Bishop of Winton, as to Hugh Pudsey, Bishop of Durham, who purchased a moiety of Langley with his own money, and gave the same to Arco, with the service of the other moiety, under the rent of half a mark.”—Boldon Book. The manor had reverted by escheat to the See...
The village of Ash occupies the centre of the heights betwixt the vales of Brune and Derness. Ash Hall, the deserted seat of the Smythes, fronts to the South, a long irregular building, with a projecting porch and dormer windows. The best apartments open into a gloomy court, where the view to the vale is intercepted by a parallel line of offices an...
The early history of these places is united. Under Boldon Boole, “Cornshuve and Hedley, which Walter the Chamberlain holds, pay two marks and carry wine with a draught of twelve oxen, and provide five chords at the Bishop's great chase. Robert de Cadomo pays 12d. for suit of the County Court of Durham, and so is quit of the said suit; and Walter Fi...
Lanchester is located in the county of Durham, North East England, three miles south of the town of Annfield Plain, 11 miles south-west of the major town of Gateshead, 97 miles south-east of Edinburgh, and 238 miles north of London. Lanchester lies five miles south-west of the Tyne & Wear border.
Lanchester is known for some of its popular attractions, which include: Potter's World; Lanchester Garden Centre; Lanchester Roman Fort; Lanchester Country Homes & Gifts; All Saints Church
