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Gosforth is an affluent, well established area of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. situated to the north of the city centre. Gosforth constituted an urban district from 1895 to 1974, when it became part of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne. It has a population of 23,620.
There are two electoral wards that bear the Gosforth name, East Gosforth and West Gosforth, and modern-day Gosforth includes other wards such as Parklands.
The Gosforth was a timber ship, registered as 810 tons and launched in 1856 for passenger transport between England and East India. Gosforth was built by T. and W. Smith Shipbuilders, later to become Smiths Dock Company, in North Shields, England. At the time of launch, Gosforth was described as an East Indiaman, though was subsequently termed " frigate-built".
Gosforth was chartered for at least one voyage to take new settlers to Adelaide in the colony of South Australia. Gosforth departed Plymouth on 3 October 1865 captained by H.P.W. Wight and arrived in Port Adelaide on 26 December 1865 with 388 people on board. Over half of the new settlers emigrated from Cornwall