ESTON, a chapelry in that part of the parish of
ORMSBY which is in the eastern division of the liberty
of LANGBAURGH, North riding of the county of YORK,
5 miles (W.N.W.) from Guisbrough, containing 272 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
of Cleveland, and diocese of York, endowed
with £400 royal bounty. The chapel is a very ancient
edifice. The village lies at the base of a detached
hill of considerable elevation, called Barnaby, or Eston
Moor, the summit of which terminates in a bold point
or promontory, called Eston Nab, where a telegraphic
beacon, or watch-house, has been lately erected. On the
summit of the promontory is an ancient encampment,
conjectured to be of Saxon origin, of the date 492,
and coeval with the battle of Badon Hill, which was
fought in this neighbourhood.