Westgate, Northumberland
Historical Description
Westgate, a township in Newcastle St John parish, Northumberland, on the river Tyne, within Newcastle borough, and forming the NW suburb of Newcastle town. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office, of the name of Westgate Hill, under Newcastle. Acreage, 237; population, 30,264. There are a church, several dissenting chapels, and a cemetery. See NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Northumberland | |
| Poor Law union | Newcastle | |
| Ward | Castle |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Westgate from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Westgate are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- 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: