CRAMLINGTON, a chapelry in that part of the parish of ST-ANDREW-NEWCASTLE, which is in the eastern division of CASTLE ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND, 8 miles (N. by E.) from Newcastle, containing 330 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Northumberland, and dioce.se of Durham, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and £200 .parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Sir M. W. Ridley, Bart., and C. Lawson, Esq. The chapel is dedicated to St. Nicholas. The village, which is situated on a pleasant slope, commanding a fine sea-view,, has gradually risen to its present improved state from the period of opening the adjacent collieries, the coal from which is conveyed by a rail-road to the river Tyne, near -Howden Pans. Sir M. W. Ridley, Bart, has provided a schoolroom here, with a house and garden for the master.