JESMOND, a township in that part of the parish
of ST-ANDREW, NEWCASTLE, which is in the eastern
division of CASLTE ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND,
2 miles (N.N. E.) from Newcastle uponTyne, containing
467 inhabitants. Here are the remains of a chapel
and hospital, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and granted,
in the reign of Edward VI., to the corporation of Newcastle;
near to these is St. Mary's well, approached
by " as- many steps as there are articles of the Creed,"
formerly a place much resorted to. At the southern extremity
of the township is Lambert's Leap, a rocky and
dangerous precipice forty-five feet in depth. At Villa
Real a stone coffin of six slab stones, containing a skeleton
and an urn, were found in 1828.