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Bedburn is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated in the civil parish of South Bedburn, near Hamsterley, Hamsterley Forest, and the River Wear. The population of this civil parish at the 2011 UK census was 171.
South Bedburn was originally a township in the ancient parish of Auckland St. Andrew in County Durham. It became a separate civil parish in 1866. From 1894 until 1937 it was part of Auckland Rural District. In 1937 it was transferred to Barnard Castle Rural District and absorbed 50 acres of North Bedburn parish which was broken up at this time. In 1974 it became part of the larger Teesdale non-metropolitan district. Since 2009 County Durham has been a unitary authority. (Source: A Vision of Britain through Time) [edit] A nineteenth century descriptionA Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of South Bedburn from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
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