EASTGATE, a hamlet in the parish of STANHOPE, north-western division of DARLINGTON ward, county palatine of DURHAM, 8 miles (W. byN.) from Walsingham. The population is returned with the parish. About one hundred children are educated at a National school built by the late Bishop of Durham: where divine service is performed every Sunday afternoon. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.