Wylam, Northumberland

Description
Wylam, a township, with a village, in Ovingham parish, Northumberland, on the river Tyne, with a station on the Newcastle and Carlisle railway, 8 1/2 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.