BYERS-GREEN, a township and a chapelry in Auckland St. Andrew parish, Durham. The township lies on the river Wear, and on the Clarence and Hartlepool railway, 3¼ miles NNE of Bishop-Auckland; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Ferry Hill. Acres, 997. Real property, £11,030; of which £3,975 are in mines. Pop., 1,634. Houses, 330. The chapelry was constituted in 1845. Pop., 2,691. Houses, 512. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the dio. of Durham. Value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of D. The church is good. There are two Methodist chapels and a national school.

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