ESH, or ASH, a chapelry in that part of the parish of LANCHESTER which is in the western division of CHESTER ward, county palatine of DURHAM, 5 miles (W.N.W.) from Din-ham, containing 470 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Durham, endowed with £800 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Perpetual Curate of Lanchester. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a small struc: ture without a tower. There is a Roman Catholic chapel in the village, and at a short distance to the east of it is a Catholic seminary, called Ushaw College, a handsome and extensive building in the form of a square, sufficiently capacious to accommodate one hundred and fifty students, besides apartments for the professors, &c.: it is conducted by the ecclesiastics of the ancient English Catholic college of Douay, in French Flanders, who made their escape from the Republican army during the French Revolution, and arriving in England in 1794, the greater part of theni established a seminary at Crook Hall. This, however, soon became too small for their growing institution; by the liberal support of the Catholic clergy and laity, they were enabled to raise the present ample edifice on the Ushaw estate, which was purchased by them for that purpose. The estate is subject to a rent-charge of £20 per annum for the education of children of this chapelry.