Description
Kyo, a township in the ecclesiastical parish of Collieriy, Durham, with a station at Annfield Plain on the N.E.B.,. 9 miles NW by N of Durham. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office at Annfield Plain. Acreage, including Annfield Plain, 1795; population, 4520. There ar& large gasworks which supply gas to the neighbouring collieries. The parish church is in this township. Oxhill, a portion of the township of Kyo, is in the ecclesiastical parish of Beamish. The parish council consists of fifteen members. See COLLIEELY.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
