Eggleston

Situated between Barnard Castle and Middleton-in-Teesdale in County Durham, Eggleston is a village who's name is believed either originate from the Cumbric word for "church", best represented by the related Welsh word "eglwys" and "tun" meaning and enclosure or "Eagle Stone", where eagles being trained for falconary were tethered to a stone by long leads.  The Cumbric language is a long extinct British-Celtic language which is related to the Welsh, Cornish and Breton languages which continue to be spoken to this day.

Much of Eggleston is laid out around a large green and the local chuch here is the Holy Trinity, part of the Church of England. There is also a pub here, the Three Tuns.  Many of the cottages here were built by the Society of Friends (the Quakers) who owned a number of lead mines nearby employing some 40 men until the smelting mills closed in 1904.

Eggleston is linked to neighbouring Romaldkirk by Eggleston Bridge, one of the oldest structures in the village.