WHITLEY, a chapelry in the parish of TYNEMOUTH,
eastern division of CASTLE ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND,
2 miles (N. by E.) from North Shields,
containing 554 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Northumberland, and
diocese of Durham, endowed with £600 private benefaction,
£200 royal bounty, and £600 parliamentary
grant. The village, pleasantly situated near the sea,
contains many well-built houses. Iron-stone abounds
in the neighbourhood j and there are extensive mines
of coal, and quarries of limestone, the productions of
which are conveyed by means of a rail-road to Shields
for exportation. The North Shields Water-works Company
have a reservoir here.