[3] The Gosforth Urban District Council was finally abolished on 1 April 1974 to become part of Newcastle upon Tyne metropolitan borough.

[5] Coal mining had been in the area as early as 1757, and Coxlodge Colliery was developed by Matthew Bell and Charles John Brandling in 1809/10.

[5] Notable people who were born in Coxlodge include Tommy Glidden, an English footballer.

A number of wealthy people lived in a large residence called Coxlodge Hall, which was built in 1796 by Job Bulman, a medical man originally from Gateshead who had made his money in India.

The hall was sold a number of times and occupants included the soap manufacturer Thomas Hedley and shipbuilders Andrew Leslie and Sir Rowland Hodge.

The previous owners were Summers-Inman Construction and Property Consultants, who bought the coach house of Coxlodge Hall in 1972 and had since renovated the location.

[12] In 2018 McDougall Dodds unveiled plans to turn the site into 8 residential properties, which then in-turn went on the market in 2020.

[15] In the 1850s Newcastle upon Tyne's hospitals for mentally ill patients were overcrowding;[16] a new asylum was promised in Coxlodge, where a 50-acre (200,000 m2) farmstead had been purchased.