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Throckley Township, 1848
THROCKLEY, a township, in the parish of Newburn, union and W. division of Castle ward, S. division of Northumberland, 6¼ miles (W. by N.) from Newcastle; containing 160 inhabitants, and comprising by computation 735 acres. Throckley Fell, on the north side of the road between Newcastle and Hexham, was inclosed under an act obtained in 1816.
Extract from: A Topographical Dictionary of England comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, and townships..... 7th Edition, by Samuel Lewis, London, 1848.
Throckley became a Civil Parish following the 1866 Poor Law Amendment Act. In 1931 Census the parish was recorded as having an area of 771 acres, and a population of 2,332. Throckley Civil Parish was abolished in April 1935 and became part of Newburn Civil Parish. Newburn Civil Parish / Newburn Urban District, along with other areas, became part of the metropolitan borough of Newcastle upon Tyne in April, 1974, following the Local Government Act 1972. The area is now unparished.
