"Edmondsley Village is situated on the Durham Road, about five miles north-north-west of Durham, and three south-west of Chester-le-Street. A little to the west of the village is a colliery carried on by the Edmondsley Coal Company. The seams now worked are the "Hutton" and "Busty," of 3 and 5 feet thick, at a depth of 60 and 100 fathoms respectively. The annual output is 150,000 tons, about one-third of which is converted into coke, and the average number of hands employed is 350, including those engaged at the coke-ovens, of which there are 112 erected."

Whellan's 1894 Directory of County Durham (via Durham Mining Museum)