EAGLESCLIFFE, a parish in the south-western division of STOCKTON ward, county palatine of DURHAM, comprising the townships of Aislaby, EaglescliflFe,- and Newsam, and containing 542 inhabitants, of which number, 332 are in the township of Eaglescliffe, a mile (N.N.E.) from Yarm. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Durham, rated in the king's books at £28. 17. 1., and in the patronage of the Bishop of Durham. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. The river Tees, which is here navigable, is crossed by a cast-iron bridge of one arch, from which there is a railway that, at a short distance, joins the Stockton and Darlington railway.