Coxlodge, Northumberland
Historical Description
Coxlodge, a village and a township in Gosforth parish, Northumberland, 2½ miles N by W of Newcastle city and station on the N.E.R., with a post office under Newcastle-on-Tyne; money order office, Kenton; telegraph office, Gosforth. Acreage, 828; population, 5607. There are Roman Catholic and Free Methodist chapels, the County Lunatic Asylum, and Roman Catholic schools. The inhabitants are employed in the collieries and brickworks.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Northumberland | |
Civil parish | Gosforth | |
Poor Law union | Castle ward | |
Ward | Castle |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Coxlodge from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Coxlodge are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers related to Northumberland online: