BILL-QUAY, a village, in. the chapelry of NETHER
HEWORTH, parish of JARROW, eastern division .of CHES-!
TER ward, county palatine of DURHAM, 3 miles (E.)
from Gateshead. The population is returned with
Nether Heworth. The village lies on the southern
bank of the river Tyne. The Arkendale mining company
have an extensive refinery here for extracting silver
from lead-ore, and an establishment for making
sheet lead 5 and there are manufactories for glass bottles,
fire-bricks, colours, and mustard; also an establishment
for the distillation of oil from bones, the calx of which,
after having been reduced to ashes, is used in making
ivory-black, &c:; there is likewise a yard for ship-building.
In a deep dene, called Catdene, now overgrown
with forest trees and thorns, are extensive quarries,
from which it is said the stone was obtained for building
the walls of Newcastle.