Whitley Bay

Whitley Bay is an ocean side town on the northeast shore of England. Verifiably in Northumberland, it is controlled as a feature of the ward of North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear. It has retained the town of Monkseaton. Whitley was first specified around 1100 when King Henry I consulted it with different belonging on the Priory of Tynemouth being alluded to in antiquated records and maps before that date as Witelei, Wyteley, Hwyteleg, Witelithe, Wheteley, Wytheleye, Whitlaw, Whitlathe and Whitlag. Whitley is additionally alluded to in the contracts of King Henry II, King Richard I and King John, affirming to the priors their belonging and freedoms.

Whitley was associated with the Crusades when Pope Nicholas IV conceded to Edward I the principal products of the soil of every ministerial ownership for a long time to settle the costs of an undertaking to the Holy Land. A valuation was made of the profound and worldly products of the Priory on 26 March 1292, when the yearly leases from Whitley were returned as 20 shillings, and the tithes as 9 marks. About the start of the 14^th century, the house of Whitley was held from the Prior of Tynemouth by a solitary primitive administration called the Conveyes which appears to have begun from John de Whitley. Richard de Emeldon, 18 times Mayor of Newcastle and seven times its agent in Parliament, was the Lord of the Manor of Whitley in 1333.