In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described North Bedburn like this:
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.
North Bedburn through time
North Bedburn is now part of Wear Valley district. Click here for graphs and data of how Wear Valley has changed over two centuries. For statistics about North Bedburn itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of North Bedburn, in Wear Valley and County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1840
Date accessed: 11th October 2024
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