CONISCLIFFE, a parish in the south-eastern division
of DARLINGTON ward, county palatine of DURHAM,
comprising the townships of High Coniscliffe and
Low Coniscliffe, and containing 391 inhabitants, of
which number, 245 are in the township of High Coniscliffe,
4 miles ("W. by N.) from Darlington. The living
is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Durham,
rated in the Icing's books at £7. 18. 1., and in
the patronage of the Bishop of Durham. The church,
dedicated to St. Edwin, has a tower and spire, and is in
the early and later styles of English architecture: it
stands at the village of High Coniscliffe, on the north
bank of the Tees, occupying an eminence nearly surrounded
by quarries of limestone, deeply wrought but
now disused, though a large quantity is still obtained
and burnt in other parts of the parish. The village of
Low Coniscliffe is situated about a mile east from the
church, and on the same side of the river. Coniscliffe
was a considerable Roman station, the outworks of
which, with the foundations of an aqueduct, and the
military road called Broadway, from Binchester to the
remains of an ancient stone bridge a little below the
present one, are still discernible. Horsley places the
Mag<e of the Notitia here, the station being occupied
by a field called the Tofts. Numerous Roman coins
have been found; and there are two tumuli in the neighbourhood.