Willington, Tyne and Wear

The place-name derives from Old English tun (homestead or farm) of Wifel's people, and appears in 1085 as Wiflintun, and as Wiuelington in 1204.^[1]

Willington was formerly a township and chapelry in the parish of Walls-end,^[2] on 30 September 1894 Willington became a separate civil parish, being formed from the rural part of Wallsend, on 9 November 1910 the parish was abolished and merged with Wallsend.^[3] In 1901 the parish had a population of 1999.^[4]

Willington became famous in the mid nineteenth century because of a ghost associated with a corn mill there owned by Joseph Procter, a local quaker. Information about this celebrated haunting was gathered together in 1892 by Procter's son.^[5]

• The geographic coordinates are from the Ordnance Survey.

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