Description
Willington, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Wallsend parish, Northumberland, on the river Tyne, and on the Newcastle and Tynemouth railway, near Howdon railway station, and 3 miles WSW of North Shields. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Willington Quay (R.S.O.) The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1859. Population, 2073. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Newcastle-on-Tyne; net value, £237 with residence. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church, erected in 1867, is in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and western bell-turret. There are Presbyterian, Reformed Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
