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Chester le Street is a town in [[County Durham]], north-east [[England]]. Its name indicated that it was the location of a [[Roman]] fort (OE: caester) and on a Roman road (OE: straet), the road in question leading from [[York]] to the forts on the [[River Tyne]] at [[South Shields]] anmd [[newcastle upon Tyne]].
Chester le Street is a town in [[County Durham]], north-east [[England]]. Its name indicated that it was the location of a [[Roman]] fort (OE: ceaster) and on a Roman road (OE: streat]], the road in question leading from [[York]] to the forts of [[South Shields]] and [[Newcastle upon Tyne]].
The body of [[St. Cuthbert]] (c.634-687) lay at Chester le Street for 113 years, between 882 and 995. Cuthbert had been entombed at the monastery of [[Lindisfarne]], on [[Holy Island]], but following the [[Viking]] raid on the monastery in 875, the monks fled the island, bearing Cuthbert's body with them. After a seven-year peregrination around [[Northumbria]], they settled in Chester le Street; in 995 they (and Cuthbert) moved to [[Ripon]], before finally settling in [[Durham]].
In the nineteenth century Chester le Street became the centre of a prosperous coal mining district.
[[Category:United Kingdom Towns and Cities]]
[[Category:United Kingdom Towns and Cities]]