LUMLEY (LITTLE), a township in that part of the
parish of CHESTER-le-STREET which is in the northern
division of EASINGTON ward, county palatine of DURHAM,
6 miles (N. N, E.) from Durham, containing 351
inhabitants. On a fine eminence, sloping to the northern
bank of the river Wear, stands the stately castle of
Lumley, erected in the reign of Edward I., by Robert
de Lumley, an ancestor of the Earls of Scarborough:
it is built of yellow freestone, in a quadrangular form,
having at each corner an octangular machicolated
turret: the eastern part only retains its ancient appearance.