WINDY NOOK is a bleak village, standing on the summit of a steep hill, about three quarters of a mile southwest from Felling station on the main line of the North Eastern railway, and 2 ½ miles south-east of Gateshead: it was formed into an ecclesiastical parish May 23, 1843, from the mother parish of Heworth and modified June 30, 1865, by the transference of part of St. Mary’s parish, Gateshead, parts of the parish having been previously assigned to St. Edmund’s, Gateshead, May 19, 1865: it is in the Chester-le-Street division of the county, east division of Chester ward, in the borough of Gateshead, petty sessional division, union and county court district of Gateshead, rural deanery of Jarrow and archdeaconry and diocese of Durham. The church of St. Alban, erected in 1842, is a plain building of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and a western bell cote containing one bell: there are three memorial windows at the west end of the church to the late Mrs. Adamson, wife of the present vicar, and five other stained windows in the chancel: there are 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1842. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £300, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of Heworth, and held since 1843 by the Rev. Edward Hussey Adamson M.A. of Lincoln College, Oxford, and surrogate. There are Methodist New Connexion, Free Methodist and Primitive Methodist chapels. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor and chief landowners. The soil is clayey; the chief crops are wheat. The population in 1881 was 3,543.

Board School, Windy Nook (mixed & infants), erected in 1883, for 309 children & 200 infants; average attendance, 250 children & 150 infants.