Crossgate, County Durham

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Crossgate is a small area of housing that sits above North Road but below the Nevilles Cross area of Durham. It is predominantly occupied by students at Durham University who favour the area due to its proximity to the University lecture rooms in New Elvet and the other academic institutions that surround Palace Green. Crossgate boasts two pubs (Ye Olde Elm Tree and The Angel), a working men's club and a pancake cafe, all of which exist as part of a cheerful community housed in pretty late Victorian brick terraced houses. rossgate is one of the oldest centres of Durham. In the middle ages it constituted a separate 'borough' of Crossgate, otherwise known as Old Borough, comprising Crossgate itself, Allergate and South Street. The borough was more or less coterminous with the chapelry - now parish - of St Margaret of Antioch. It was under the lordship of Durham Priory and had its own borough court, but had no market of its own. The area of residence shrank considerably during the late middle ages and afterwards, but grew again rapidly during the nineteenth century. Crossgate's present largely residential character is at least partly the result of the nineteenth-century construction of North Road as a principal shopping street.