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National Gazetteer (1868) - Newcastle upon Tyne, St Andrew

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"DUDLEY, a hamlet in the parish of Newcastle upon Tyne St. Andrew, in the county of Northumberland, 5 miles S.W. of Blyth. It is a station on the North-Eastern railway."
"FENHAM, a township in the parish of Newcastle upon Tyne St. Andrew, W. division of Castle ward, county Northumberland, 2 miles N.W. Newcastle. Coal is obtained here. Fenham Hall is the principal residence."
"JESMOND, a township in the parish of Newcastle upon Tyne St. Andrew, E. division of Castle ward, county Northumberland, 2 miles N.E. of Newcastle, within which borough it is included. It is a station on the Newcastle and Tynemouth section of the Blyth and Tyne railway. Here was a chapel and hospital dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and given by Edward VI. to the corporation of Newcastle, also a rood and holy well. The chapel has been converted into a barn, but the hospital has been rebuilt. The manor was formerly possessed by the Hiltons, and afterwards by the Stottes and Coulsons, of Jesmond House. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Durham, in the patronage of the trustees. There is a girls' school, with a small endowment. In 1828 a stone coffin of six slab stones was found at Villa Real, containing human remains, and an urn."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson (c)2003]