Brandling Park, bowling green

HER Number

10818

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Brandling Park, bowling green

Place

Brandling Village

Map Sheet

NZ26NW

Class

Recreational

Site Type: Broad

Ball Sports Site

Site Type: Specific

Bowling Green

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

This was Newcastle's first municipal bowling green, laid out in 1882. It still exists.

Easting

424900

Northing

565660

Grid Reference

NZ424900565660

Sources

Ordnance Survey Second Edition of 1896; Lynn Pearson, 2010, Played in Tyne and Wear - Charting the heritage of people at play, p 17