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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Chirton like this:
CHIRTON, a township in Tynemouth parish, Northumberland; on the river Tyne and the North Shields railway, ¾ of a mile W of North Shields. It has a post office under North Shields. Acres, 1, 730. Pop., 5, 544. Houses, 1, 047. There were extensive collieries here; but they have been worked out.
Chirton is now part of NORTH TYNESIDE District. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTH TYNESIDE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Chirton itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Chirton, in North Tyneside and Northumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22468
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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