North Bedburn, Durham

Historical Description

Bedburn, North, a township in Witton-le-Wear parish, Durham, forming the ecclesiastical parish of Fir Tree, near the Weardale railway and the river Wear, 5½ miles NW of Bishop-Auckland, and 1½ mile from Beechburn station on the main line of the N.E.R. It comprises the villages of Houghton-le-Wear, Firtree, High and Low Bitchburn, Thistle Flat, and Hargil Hill. Acreage, 2837; population,2478. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; gross value, £310 per annum, alternately in the gift of the Bishop of Durham and the Crown. There are three dissenting chapels in the township, also extensive collieries, and bricks of a superior kind aru manufactured here. There is a workman's liall, with library and recreation rooms.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for North Bedburn from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bedburn, North)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for County Durham is available to browse.

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering county Durham online:

• Hartlepool Mail
• Northern Echo
• Durham County Advertiser
• Teesdale Mercury