Wylam, Northumberland
Historical Description
Wylam, a township, with a village, in Ovingham parish, Northumberland, on the river Tyne, with a station on the Newcastle and Carlisle railway, 8½ miles W of Newcastle. There is also a station at North Wylam, on a branch of the N.E.R. It lies mainly on the N side of the river, partly on the S side, and has a bridge over the river, which was widened and Improved in 1894, a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.), a church, a Wesleyan chapel, and a reading institute and school. Acreage, 931 of land and 43 of water; population, 1003. There is a parish council of eight members. The living is a chaplaincy. The church, built in 1886, is in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and embattled tower containing a clock and six bells. An institute was erected in 1895-96 at a cost of £2000. George Stephenson, the famous engineer, was a native.
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 | Ovingham | |
| Poor Law union | Hexham | |
| Ward | Tindale |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Wylam from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Wylam 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
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