In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Walker like this:
WALKER, a village, a township, and a chapelry, in Longbenton parish, Northumberland. The village stands on the river Tyne, near the Newcastle and Tynemouth railway, 3 miles E of Newcastle; carries on iron founding, iron ship building, copperas and alkali manufactory, and the shipment of coals; presents a blackened and disagreeable appearance; and has a post-office‡ under Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a r. ...
station, a church of 1848, and a U. Presbyterian chapel of 1866.-The township includes the village. Rated property in 1868, £24,000. Pop. in 1851, 3,963; in 1861, 6,473. Houses, 1,076. -The chapelry is less extensive than the township, and was constituted in 1846. Pop., 5,843. Houses, 966. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £300.* Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop.
Walker through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Walker, in Newcastle upon Tyne and Northumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1222
Date accessed: 23rd April 2024
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