conderum

Updated: June 27, 2025

Following the Wear northward towards its mouth, at a short distance below Durham it passes the site of the Roman city of Conderum, which had been the resting-place of St. Cuthbert's bones until the Danish invasion drove them away, and it is now known as Chester-le-Street. Here, in the old church of St. Mary and St.

Joel Cook - England, Picturesque and Descriptive: A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel