HEDDON-on-the-WALL, a parish, in the county
of NORTHUMBERLAND, comprising the
township of East Heddon and a part of Eachwick, in
the western division of CASTLE ward, and the townships
of Heddon on the Wall, West Heddon, Houghton with
Clowhouse, Whitchester, and the other portion of Eachwick,
in the eastern division of TINDALE ward, county
of NORTHUMBERLAND, and containing 770 inhabitants,
of which number, 362 are in the township of Heddon
on the Wall, 7 miles (W. by N.) from Newcastle upon
Tyne. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Northumberland, and diocese of Durham,
and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is
dedicated to St. Philip and St. James. This parish is
bounded on the south by the river Tyne, and on the
north by the Font. The Picts, or Roman, wall intersected
the parish, from which circumstance it derives
its distinguishing appellation; the fosse alone is now
visible.