Willington is an area in the North Tyneside district, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. It has an industrial estate.
The place-name derives from Old English tun (homestead or farm) of Wifel's people, and appears in 1085 as Wiflintun, and as Wiuelington in 1204.
Willington was formerly a township and chapelry in the parish of Walls-end, on 30 September 1894 Willington became a separate civil parish, being formed from the rural part of Wallsend, on 9 November 1910 the parish was abolished and merged with Wallsend. In 1901 the parish had a population of 1999.
Willington became famous in the mid nineteenth century because of a ghost associated with a corn mill there owned by Joseph Procter, a local quaker. Information about this celebrated haunting was gathered together in 1892 by Procter's son.