Newcastle-upon-Tyne

A river-port and the chief town of the county of North umber land, England, 14 miles north from Durham. The Romans had a stationary camp here, called Pons Ælii , one of the chain of forts by which the Wall of Hadrian was fortified. Newcastle surrendered to the Scotch in 1646, who here gave up Charles I. to the Parliament in 1646. The town occupied by Gen. Wade in 1745.