Chester-le-Street, Durham - Lumley Castle - postcard by Lang, 1908 pmk

• Postcard

   

• Picture / Image:  Lumley Castle, Chester-le-Street [Co. Durham]
• Publisher: William Land (The National Series)
• Postally used: yes
• Stamp:  Edward VII half d light green
• Postmark(s): Dartford 1908 cds
• Sent to:  Mr Warner, 109 High Street, Ashford
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Chester-le-Street (/ˈtʃɛstərlistriːt/)[2][3] is a town in County Durham, England. Its history goes back to the building of a Roman fort called Concangis. This Roman fort is the "Chester" (from the Latin castra) of the town's name; the "Street" refers to the paved Roman road that ran north–south through the town, and which is now called Front Street.

Chester-le-Street is located 7 miles (11 km) south of Newcastle upon Tyne and 8 miles (13 km) west of Sunderland on the River Wear. The parish church of St Mary and St Cuthbert is where the body of St Cuthbert remained for 112 years before being transferred to Durham Cathedral, and the site of the first translation of the Gospels into English, Aldred writing the Old English gloss between the lines of the Lindisfarne Gospels there.[4]

A market town,[5] the town holds markets Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

From 1894 until 2009 the town had its own local government district. Originally from 1894, this was the Chester-le-Street Rural District, which covered the town and several outlying villages. In 1909 the inner part of the Rural District was separated out to form the new Chester-le-Street Urban District Council, which covered the town as it was at that time. By 1974, however, the town of Chester-le-Street had expanded far beyond the boundary of the Urban District and during that year's Local Government reorganisation, the Urban District was amalgamated with parts of the remaining Rural District to form the new Chester-le-Street District. The Chester-le-Street District Council was abolished in 2009 when County Durham became a unitary authority as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England,[6][7] a move that was controversial at the time.[8][9]