EGGLESTONE, a chapelry in the parish of MIDDLETON-in-TEESDALE,
south-western division of DARLINGTON
ward, county palatine of DURHAM, 63 miles
(N.W.by N.) from Barnard-Castle, containing 464 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 Rector of Middleton.
There are lead-mines in the parish, said to have been in
operation since the time of Henry VI., and which, from
the discovery of ancient excavations and tools therein,
are supposed to have been known to the Romans. The
London Lead Company have a smelting-mill here. About
a mile to the northward of the village, near a rivulet, is
a circle of rough stones, with an inner trench enclosing
a cairn; and close by the brook is a tumulus, intersected
by a row of stones.