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HEATON, a township in Newcastle-All Saints parish, Northumberland; on the Ouse burn, the Northeastern railway, and on the Newcastle and North Shields railway, 1¾ mile NE of Newcastle. It has a station on the Northeastern railway. Acres, 911. Pop., 376. Houses, 76. The manor belonged, in the time of King John, to Robert de Gangy; and passed to the Babingtons. King John is said to have resided here, when sojourning in the north; and remains of an ancient strong house, called King John's palace, stood till lately. Edward I. visited Heaton chapel in 1299, to hear a boy bishop. Heaton Hall was built in 1713, by the Ridleys, as a central residence for their numerous collieries. Heaton Main colliery was the scene of a fearful accident in April 1815, when 41 men and 34 boys perished. The Newcastle and North Shields railway has a deep cutting, nearly a mile long, within the township. A pleasant walk goes up the Ouse burn from Heaton to Jesmond.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Northumberland AncC |
| Place: | Heaton |
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