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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Windy Nook like this:
WINDYNOOK, a chapelry in Heworth township, Jarrow parish, Durham; 2 miles SSE of Gateshead r. station. It was constituted in 1843; and its Post town is Gateshead. Pop., 2,635. Houses, 460. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £300.* Patron, the Incumbent of Heworth.
Windy Nook is now part of GATESHEAD District. Click here for graphs and data of how GATESHEAD has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Windy Nook itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Windy Nook, in Gateshead and County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25024
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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