Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WILLINGTON

WILLINGTON, a township and a chapelry in Walls-end parish, Northumberland. The township lies on the river Tyne, and on the Newcastle and Tynemouth railway, near Howdon r. station, and 3 miles WSW of North Shields; and contains W. village, with a post-office under Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and W. Quay, with a post-office‡ under Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Extensive ship-building yards, copper-smelting works, lead-works, fire-brick works, a ropery, and other industrial establishments are at W. Quay. A united Presbyterian church also was built there in 1867: and is in the pointed style, with tower and spire 92 feet high. Robert Stephenson, the civil engineer, was a native; and the Stephenson institute has been erected on the site of his birthplace. Pop. in 1851, 2,284; in 1861, 3,031. Houses, 399.—The chapelry was constituted in 1859. Pop., 795. Houses, 153. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Durham. Value, £222. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is good.


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

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Feature Description: "a township and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Northumberland AncC
Place: Willington Quay

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