WHITLEY, a township in Cullercoates chapelry, Tynemouth parish, Northumberland; on the coast, and on the Blyth and Tyne railway, 2½ miles N of North Shields. It contains a neat village of its own name, A handsome seaside terrace, and a reservoir of the North Shields water-works; and has a post-office under North Shields, and a r. station. Acres, 539. Pop., 419. Houses, 80. The manor belonged to Tynemouth priory. Coal, ironstone, and limestone are worked.

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