HEDWORTH is a township in the parish of Jarrow; the ecclesiastical district was formed April 9, 1878, from the parishes of Jarrow, Boldon, Monkwearmouth and Whitburn, and includes Boldon Colliery and High Simonside: the township is 6 ½ miles south-east from Newcastle and 2 south from Jarrow; the nearest railway station is Brockley Whins on the Newcastle and Sunderland section of the North Eastern railway. The church of St. Nicholas, erected in 1882, is a building of stone, in the Decorated style, consisting of nave with north aisle, and a western turret containing one bell. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £300, in the gift of the Crown and Bishop of Durham alternately, and held since 1878 by the Rev. Charles Ernest Streeter, of St. Bees. The acreage and rateable value are returned with Jarrow. The population of the ecclesiastical parish in 1881 was 1,809.

National School, built in 1870, for 100 children; average attendance, 60.