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Edmundbyers is a village in County Durham, England. Its population taken at the 2011 UK census was 173. It is situated a few miles to the west of Consett, near Derwent Reservoir. A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Edmundbyers from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
Edmundbyers was an ancient parish in the Chester Ward of County Durham. It was made a civil parish in the 19th century and became part of the Weardale Rural District from 1894 until 1974. Between 1974 and 2009 it became part of the larger Wear Valley non-metropolitan district. Since 2009 County Durham has been a unitary authority. Its only subsidiary township was Hunstanworth. [edit] Research Tips
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