segedunum

Updated: May 17, 2025

But Wallsend itself, as all the world knows, is of much greater antiquity, for was it not, as its name proclaims, situated at the end of the Great Wall? Its name then, however, was not Wallsend but Segedunum. Willington Quay, further down the river, was, for a time, the home of George Stephenson, and here his son, Robert, was born.

Jean F. (Jean Finlay) Terry - Northumberland Yesterday and To-day