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 and Wales, 1894-5
