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Ebchester in Durham County England History and GeographyEBCHESTER, a chapelry in that part of the parish of LANCHESTER which is in the western division of CHESTER ward, county palatine of DURHAM, 14 miles (N.W. by W.) from Durham, containing 200 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Durham, endowed with £200 private benefaetion, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patron-age of the Bishop of Durham. The church is a small ancient structure, dedicated to St. Ebba, daughter of Ethelfrid, King of Northumberland, who, before 660, founded a monastery upon the banks of the Derwent, which was subsequently destroyed by the Danes, and the royal foundress became abbess of Coldingham. Five hundred years afterwards, Ebchester is described as 'the place of anchorets.' The church and a few cottages occupy the site of a Roman station, two hundred yards square, with extensive outworks, supposed to be the Vindomora of Antoninus, traces of which are still discernible. Sepulchral and other monuments found upon the spot have been built up in the walls of the houses, and some are deposited in the library at Durham, with an urn of an uncommon size and shape, having a small cup in the centre, as a lachrymatory, or patera. The Roman road from Lanchester and Corbridge leads to Ebchester, where Gale places Ptolemy's Epiacum, but Horsley states it to be at Hexham. David II., King of Scotland, in his unfortunate invasion, is said to have entered the county by this road, which may still be traced where it crossed the Derwent, by a ford near the present foot-bridge. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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