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Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Tynemouth within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.
Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew
Tynemouth, parl. and mun. bor., par. and township, and watering-place, Northumberland, at N. side of mouth of river Tyne, opposite South Shields, 8 miles NE. of Newcastle and 272 from London by rail - par., 6831 ac., pop. 46,364; township, 1189 ac., pop. 22,548; bor., 4303 ac., pop. 44,118. Tynemouth includes the port of North Shields, and the whole bor. is usually called North Shields. Tynemouth proper, immediately E. of North Shields, is a bathing-place, with a fine sandy beach, baths, aquarium, winter garden, a magnificent stone pier, and a grand parade nearly a mile long. In Saxon times Tynemouth was in great repute as the burial-place of St Oswyn, its patron saint. A monastery was founded in 625, and its ruins are within the walls of the castle. In the castle yard is a lighthouse 79 ft. high, with revolving light (Entrance to the Tyne) 154 ft. above high water and seen 18 miles. Tynemouth has rapidly risen into a large town. It was made a parl. bor. in 1832, and a mun. bor. in 1849. It returns 1 member to Parliament.