Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WINDYNOOK

WINDYNOOK, a chapelry in Heworth township, Jarrow parish, Durham; 2 miles SSE of Gateshead r. station. It was constituted in 1843; and its Post town is Gateshead. Pop., 2,635. Houses, 460. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £300.* Patron, the Incumbent of Heworth.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Jarrow AP/CP       County Durham AncC
Place: Windy Nook

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