Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Westoe

Westoe, township, Jarrow par., Durham (forming principal part of South Shields), 1749 ac. and 411 tidal water and foreshore, pop. 49,165. See SHIELDS, SOUTH.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: County Durham AncC
Place: Westoe

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