Description
Back-worth, or Black-worth, a township and colliery village in Earsdon parish, Northumberland, on the Morpeth and Tynemouth railway, 4 1/2 miles NW of North Shields. It has a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Newcastle-on-Tyne. Acreage, 1588 ; population, 2240. The manor belonged anciently to the priory of Tynemouth, and belongs now to the Duke of Northumberland. A coal mine here produces the Northumberland Wallsend or Earsdon Main coal.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
