Gateshead, Werhale, hospital

A hospital at Werhale is documented between 1265 and 1344 as a dependency of Durham. Werhale is a territory name (like the Wirral) for an estate which lay between the lower courses of the rivers Tyne and Wear, an estate which included the twin monasteries of Jarrow and Monkwearmouth and the villages of Jarrow, Over and Nether Heworth, Monkton, Harton, Southwick, Monkwearmouth, Fulwell, Hedworth, Hebburn, South Shields, Monkwearmouth, Newton Garths, Westoe, Preston, Simonside, Whitburn, Cleadon, West Boldon and East Boldon.. The 'halh' element probably means 'nook' or 'corner'.