Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BEDBURN (North)

BEDBURN (North), a township in Auckland-St Andrew parish, Durham; near the Weardale railway and the river Wear, 5½ miles NW of Bishop-Auckland. Acres, 2,036. Real property, £6,112,-of which £2,963 are in mines. Pop., 1,771. Houses, 335. There is a Wesleyan chapel.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Auckland St Andrew CP/AP       County Durham AncC
Place names: BEDBURN     |     BEDBURN NORTH     |     NORTH BEDBURN
Place: North Bedburn

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