Eldon is a village in
County Durham, England. It is situated a few miles south-west of
Bishop Auckland, a short distance from
Shildon
Shildon is a town and civil parish in County Durham, in England. The population taken at the 2011 Census was 9,976. The town has the Locomotion Museum, due to it having the first , built in 1825, and locomotive works on the Stockton and Darlin ...
. It gives its name to the peerage of the
Earls of Eldon.
The village became a
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of Parish (administrative division), administrative parish used for Local government in England, local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below district ...
, with a parish council, on 1 April 2003. It had previously been part of Shildon parish. The population of this civil parish as at the
2011 census was 327.
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Villages in County Durham
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