GOSFORTH, a parish comprising the townships of
North Gosforth and South Gosforth, in the eastern division,
and the townships of East Brunton, West
Brunton, Coxlodge, Fawdon, East Kenton, and West
Kenton, in the western division, of CASTLE ward, county
of NORTHUMBERLAND, and containing 3295 inhabitants,
of which number, 141 are in the township of
North Gosforth, 4 miles (N.) from Newcastle, and
174 in that of South Gosforth, 2 miles (N. by E.) from
Newcastle. The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to
the vicarage of St. Nicholas in Newcastle, in the archdeaconry
of Northumberland, and diocese of Durham.
The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, and situated at
South Gosforth, was rebuilt in 1798, and enlarged in
1819; it is a neat edifice, with a square tower surmounted
by an octagonal spire. A chapel, formerly at
North Gosforth, has been demolished; the tomb-stones
in the cemetery all bear dates within the seventeenth
century. There are extensive coal mines in the parish.