Description

Byers-Green, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Durham. The township lies on the river Wear, ; 1/2 miles NNE of Bishop-Auckland, and has a station on the N.E.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Spennymoor. Acreage, 1069 ; population, 2346 ; of the ecclesiastical parish, 3505. The parish was constituted in 1845, and embraces the township of Newfield, the larger part of that of Binchester, and nearly all that of Byers-Green. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Durham; net value, £330 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Durham. There are two Methodist chapels, a church institute, a library, and reading-rooms. The inhabitants are almost wholly employed in coal mining.