Jesmond, Northumberland

Historical Description

Jesmond, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Newcastle St Andrew parish, Northumberland. The township lies in a fine vale, on the Newcastle and Tynemouth railway, 1½ mile NE of Newcastle, is a ward of Newcastle borough, and has a station on the N.E.R. Post town, money order, and telegraph office, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Acreage, 700; population, 8442; of the ecclesiastical parish, 7389. The manor belonged in the 14th century to the Hiltons, and passed to the Stottes and the Coulsons. An ancient chapel, called St Mary's, stood at Jesmond Grove, was a resort of pilgrims from all parts of the kingdom; was given by Edward VI. to the corporation of Newcastle, was sold by them to Sir John Brandling, and is still an object of interest. An ancient hospital also stood here. A stone coffin containing human remains was found in 1828 at Villa Real. Many good houses have been erected in the township, which forms a fashionable suburb of Newcastle. A high-level bridge across Jesmond Dene has been erected by Lord Armstrong at a cost of £30, 000, and presented to the borough. The ecclesiastical parish is more extensive than the township, and includes Brandling and Jesmond Vale, and was constituted in 1861. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Newcastle; net value, £500 with residence. The ecclesiastical parish of St George's was formed out of Jesmond in 1888.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Jesmond from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Jesmond)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Jesmond 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:

• Morpeth Herald
• Berwickshire News and General Advertiser
• The Berwick Advertiser
• Alnwick Mercury
• Illustrated Berwick Journal