Willington, Tyne and Wear

Willington
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Willington Location within Tyne and Wear
Metropolitan borough	North Tyneside
Metropolitan county	Tyne and Wear
Region	North East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	WALLSEND
Postcode district	NE28
Dialling code	0191
Police	Northumbria
Fire	Tyne and Wear
Ambulance	North East
List of places UK England Tyne and Wear 55°00′00″N1°30′30″W / 55.00000°N 1.50833°W / 55.00000; -1.50833

Willington is an area in the North Tyneside district, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. It has an industrial estate.

History

The place-name derives from Old English tun (homestead or farm) of Wifel's people, and appears in 1085 as Wiflintun, and as Wiuelington in 1204. ^[1]

Willington was formerly a township and chapelry in the parish of Walls-end, ^[2] on 30 September 1894 Willington became a separate civil parish, being formed from the rural part of Wallsend, on 9 November 1910 the parish was abolished and merged with Wallsend. ^[3] In 1901 the parish had a population of 1999. ^[4]

Folklore

Willington became famous in the mid nineteenth century because of a ghost associated with a corn mill there owned by Joseph Procter, a local quaker. Information about this celebrated haunting was gathered together in 1892 by Procter's son. ^[5]

References

• The geographic coordinates are from the Ordnance Survey.

1. Ekwall, Eilert , The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 1960. p. 520. ISBN   0198691033 .
2. "History of Willington Quay, in North Tyneside and Northumberland". A Vision of Britain through Time . Retrieved 26 September 2024.
3. "Tynemouth Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
4. "Population statistics Willington CP/Tn through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
5. Edmund Procter, ‘The Haunted House at Willington’, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 5 (Dec 1892), 331–48