Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WEETSLADE, or Weetslet

WEETSLADE, or Weetslet, a township in Long-benton parish, Northumberland; 5½ miles N of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It contains the villages of Seaton-Burn, Six-Mile-Bridge, and part of Hazlerigg. Pop. in 1851, 1,353; in 1861, 2,828. Houses, 503. The increase of pop. arose from the opening of a new colliery.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Northumberland AncC
Place names: WEETSLADE     |     WEETSLADE OR WEETSLET     |     WEETSLET
Place: Weetslade

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