Description
Brierdean or Burradon, a township in Earsdon parish, Northumberland, on the Blyth railway, 5 miles NNW of North Shields. The nearest railway station is Whitley (1 mile) on the N.E.R. It has a post and money order office called Burradon, under Dudley (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Forest Hall. Acreage, 545; population, 1156. Coal and stone are worked. A dreadful colliery disaster occurred here in March, 1860.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
