[4] It has Egglescliffe School (secondary and sixth-form), a light industrial estate, two railway stations and golf club.

Villages in the parish include Eaglescliffe, Urlay Nook, Sunningdale, Orchard and a development on the former Allens West MOD site.

[5] The village is on top of a hill with the River Tees at the bottom, overlooking Yarm on the other bank.

It had a 2001 population of around 595,[6] There is a Church of England primary school, small kids play area, farms, allotments and a public house (called the Pot and Glass).

[8]: 55  However, by 2007 Victor Watts had noted that Egglescliffe is distant from other examples of more reliably attested "Eccles" names, and that the l is usually absent from the first element in medieval sources.

He concluded that Egglescliffe originated with the personal name Ecgwulf, which had the nickname form Ecgi.

The parish church is dedicated to St John the Baptist and there has been a place of worship on the site since the twelfth century.