Heworth Township, 1872

HEWORTH, a town, a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district in Jarrow parish, and Gateshead district, Durham. The town stands adjacent to the river Tyne, and to the Darlington and Brandling railway, near Pelaw Junction station, 2½ miles E.S.E. of Gateshead; and has a post office under Gateshead.-The township lies partly within Gateshead borough; includes the chapelries of St. Albans and Felling, constituted in 1843 and 1866; and comprises 2, 786 acres of land, and 67 of water. Real property, £27, 435; of which £9, 286 are in mines, £938 in quarries, and £700 in iron works. Pop. in 1851, 8, 869, in 1861, 10, 315. Houses, 1, 570. The increase of pop. was caused by the extension of chemical works. Pop. of the part within Gateshead borough, 838. Houses, 132. Ship building is carried on in several yards; coal is extensively mined and exported; and paper, pottery, glass, and chemicals, are manufactured.

The chapelry was at one time couterminate with the township, but was curtailed and made ecclesiastically parochial in 1843. Rated property, £19, 902. Pop. in 1861, 7,680. The property is subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Durham. Value, £234. Patrons, Lady James and Thomas Drewett Brown, Esq. The church was rebuilt in 1822; is in the pointed style, with an embattled tower; and contains 668 sittings. A monumental column is in the churchyard, commemorative of the death of 91 persons, in 1812, by an explosion in Felling colliery. There are a national school and a mechanics' institution. The sub-district is conterminate with the township.

Extract from: Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, John Marius Wilson, 1870-72.