a village of England, county of Durham, near the Wear, 6 miles N. of Durham. Pop. (1851) 2580. Its Saxon name was Cuncaestre; and from 882 to 995 it was the seat of the episcopal see of Durham. The church, which was formerly collegiate, is a fine old Gothic structure with a tower at its W. end, surmounted by an elegant spire 156 feet high. The manufactures are unimportant, the inhabitants being chiefly employed in the coal mines of the neighbourhood. Lumley castle, the seat of the Earl of Scarborough, is in the immediate vicinity.