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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "HIGH ELSWICK":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  DURHAM	County Durham	High Elswick, Cullercoates, Low Town, Percy, Tynemouth-St. Saviour, Tynemouth-Trinity, Wallsend, Howden-Pans, and Willington; and the donative of Blyth	Imperial
  High Elswick	Northumberland	High Elswick , eccl. dists. (St Paul and St Philip), Newcastle St John par., Northumberland - St Paul, pop. 8937; St Philip	Bartholomew
  JOHN-NEWCASTLE (ST.)	Northumberland	Elswick and Westgate, and arose from extension of Sir William Armstrong's ordnance and engineering works, from extension of the iron trade, and from facilities in building. Some of the oldest collieries in England are within the parish; and some ancient coal workings, which may have been Roman, were discovered, about 1860, at Benwell. The Roman station Condercum was at Benwell; two Roman altars, and other relics, found by recent excavation, are preserved there; and the northern portion of the Roman station there is now occupied by the high	Imperial
  Newcastle upon Tyne	Northumberland	High Level Bridge (1846 -5 0) of Robert Stephenson has an extreme length of 1375 ft., the upper part being 112 ft. above high water. The Swing Bridge (opened 1876), constructed by Sir W. Armstrong, is one of the largest of the kind in the world, and allows free navigation of the river. St Nicholas' Church (1359, restored 1879) is a very fine building, with a pointed spire (194 ft.), a peal of 8 bells, and an altar piece by Tintoretto. The central railway station and the general market are remarkable for their commodiousness and convenience. The Town Hall	Bartholomew
  NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE	Northumberland	High Elswick; serves for a portion of St. Nicholas parish formed into a chapelry in 1846; and is in the early	Imperial
  NORTHUMBERLAND	Northumberland	Elswick, Gosforth, Harbottle, Little Harle, Heddon, Hesleyside, Kirkley, Lilburn, Lindon, Milburn, Minster-Acres, Mitford Castle, Morwick, Nunnykirk, Nunwick, Otterburn, Pallins-burn, Roddam, Shawden, Swinburn, Twizel, Unthank, Weetwodd, and Wolsingham. The county is governed by a lord lieutenant and custos, a high	Imperial

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