Description
Burdon, a small village and township in Ryhope parish, Durham, near the Durham and Sunderland railway, 4 miles S by W of Sunderland, which is the post town and telegraph office; money order office, Ryhope Colliery. Acreage of township, 1135; population, 125.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
