Kenton, Northumberland

Historical Description

Kenton, a township in Gosforth parish, Northumberland, 8 miles NNE of Newcastle-on-Tyne station on the N.E.R. and North British railway. It contains the hamlets of Bank Top and Blake Law, and has a post and money order office under Newcastle; telegraph office, Gosforth. Acreage, 1454; population, 607. Very good freestone is quarried. There are a school mission chapel, a Methodist chapel, and a meeting-house for Plymouth Brethren.

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 Kenton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Kenton, East, and West)

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Kenton 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