Greenside

Greenside is first depicted on Armstrong's map of County Durham, published by Thomas Jeffreys in 1768 as a small settlement along the road between Ryton and 'Coal Burn'. The Greenwood map of County Durham, surveyed between 1818 and 1819, marks Greenside as a hamlet or village dispersed across the road to the north of Long Row and Cadger Row. The subsequent Hobson map of 1840 marks Greenside as south of Long Row and Cadger Row.

The Ordnance Survey First Edition of 1862, surveyed in 1856 depicts the village as a broadly linear along Sandy Lane but focused around the crossroads where the roads from High Folly, New Kyo and Coal Burns join together. The engine pond to the south and the B. Pit on the map demonstrate the reason for the village's expansion in the mid 19th century but there appears to be evidence of farmsteads associated with the village.