Escomb, Durham
Historical Description
Escomb (formerly Ediscunz), a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Durham, on the river Wear, 1½ mile from Etheriey station on the N.E.R., and l½ WNW of Bishop-Auckland. There is a post office under Bishop-Auckland; money order and telegraph office, Witton Park. Acreage of the township, 1032; population, 3401; of the ecclesiastical parish, 1034. The chief employment is coal-mining. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; gross value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Durham. The church was at one time prebendal to Auckland College, was annexed in 1501 to Durham deanery, and was restored in 1880. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and a cemetery.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | County Durham | |
Poor Law union | Auckland | |
Ward | Darlington |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Escomb from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for County Durham is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Escomb are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering county Durham online: