Edmondsley, Durham
Historical Description
Edmondsley, a village and a township in Sacriston parish, Durham, on an affluent of the river Wear, 2 miles from Stella Gill station on the N.E.R., and 5½ NW by N of Durham, with a post and money order office under Chester-le-Street; telegraph office, Sacriston. Acreage, 2313; population, 2741. The Earl of Durham is lord of the manor. There are stone quarries, and coal is largely worked. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | County Durham | |
Civil parish | Chester le Street | |
Poor Law union | Chester-le-Street | |
Ward | Chester |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Edmondsley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Edmondsley)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for County Durham is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Edmondsley are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering county Durham online: