Willington Quay is an area in the borough of North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear in northern England.

The Local Government Act 1894 brought together the Howdon and Willington Quay USDs as an urban district of Northumberland.

[11] The steel wire and rope manufacturers Messrs. R. Hood Haggie and Son, founded in 1789, was also situated in Willington Quay.

[13] In 1936, Irene Ward MP wrote to The Times to ask if readers would consider donating musical instruments to the unemployed of the village.

[14] The same year, a Daily Mail article recorded that young people were having to leave the area in order to find work.

[15] The village's railway station closed in 1973.Despite this , the nearby village of howdon is still connected to the tyne and wear metro service[16] Willington Quay Maternity Hospital was a 14-bed facility built in 1926, the first to be built by Northumberland County Council.