ELDON, a township in that part of the parish of ST-ANDREW, AUCKLAND, which is in the south-eastern division of DARLINGTON ward, county palatine of DURHAM, 3 miles (S.E. byE.) from Bishop-Auckland containing 94 inhabitants. John Scott, Earl of Eldon, late Lord High Chancellor of England, was elevated to the peerage by the title of Baron Eldon, on the 18th of July, 1799, having also been raised to the dignities of Viscount Encombe and. Earl of Eldon, July 7th, 1821.