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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Low Town like this:
LOW-TOWN, a chapelry in Tynemouth parish, Northumberland; connected with North Shields. It was constituted in 1860, and is sometimes called St. Peters. Post town, North Shields. Pop. in 1861,6,314. Houses, 743. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Durham. Value, £200.* Patron, the Duke of Northumberland.
Low Town 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 Low Town itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Low Town, in North Tyneside and Northumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25646
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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