The New International Encyclopædia/Blaydon

BLAY′DON. A coal-mining town in Durham, England, on the right bank of the Tyne, 4½ miles west of Newcastle (Map: England, E 2). Its municipal life is active; it owns its water-supply, maintains a technical school, and has fine modern public buildings. Population, in 1891, 13,200; in 1901, 19,600.