Little Lumley, Durham

Description
Lumley, Little, a township in Lumley ecclesiastical parish, Durham, contiguous on the N to Great Lumley, 1 1/2 mile E of Chester-le-Street station on the N.E.R., and 2 miles from Fence Houses. Post office, Great Lumley; money order and telegraph office, Fence Houses. Acreage, 875, of which 23 are water; population, 557. Lumley Castle is the seat of the Earl of Scarbrough; was founded in the time of Edward I. by the Lumleys, descendants of Lyulph the Saxon, and ancestors of the Earl of Scarbrough; was extended in the time of Richard II. by Sir Ralph Lumley; has since been partly rebuilt and modernized; stands on a gentle elevation, with a lawn sloping to the river Wear; forms a quadrangular pile of yellow freestone, flanked by octagonal towers; measures 196 feet along the S front, and 84 feet by 75 in the inner court; contains a good collection of family portraits; is approached through a bold and stately gateway, and commands a varied and very extensive view.