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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

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:

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

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)
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: