Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KYO

KYO, a township, with a village, in Lanchester parish, Durhamshire; on the Stanhope railway, 9 miles NW by N of Durham. Acres, 1,230. Real property, £5,712; of which £2,740 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 1,401; in 1861,1,679. Houses, 334.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Kyo CP/Tn       Lanchester AP/CP       County Durham AncC
Place: Kyo

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