TRIMDON, a parish in the southern division of EASINGTON ward, county palatine of DURHAM, 9 miles (S. E.) from Durham, containing 302 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Durham, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of William Beckwith, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene. A lectureship was endowed here before 1730, with £21, 5. a year, by John Smith, Esq. Henry Airey, in 1680, among other bequests, gave, a rent-charge of £5 for the maintenance of a free school: ten poor children are educated for this bequest in a school-house built by subscription, in 1823. The produce of an estate, purchased with the amount of various bequests, is applied partly in apprenticing children, and partly to the relief of the poor. Some large specimens of lead-ore have been dug up in the neighbourhood, but no mine has yet been opened.