Backworth Hall, gardens

HER Number

11358

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Backworth Hall, gardens

Place

Backworth

Map Sheet

NZ37SW

Class

Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces

Site Type: Broad

Garden

Site Type: Specific

Garden

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

Gardens of eighteenth century house. Largely converted into a golf course, cricket pitch and bowling green. LOCAL LIST

Easting

430030

Northing

571890

Grid Reference

NZ430030571890

Sources

North Tyneside Council, August 2007, List of Buildings and Parks of Special Local Architectural and Historic Interest Supplementary Planning Document, Local Development Document 9; Fiona Green, 1995, A Guide to the Historic Parks and Gardens of Tyne and Wear, p 54; North Tyneside Council, November 2008, Register of Buildings and Parks of Special Local Architectural and Historic Interest SDP (Local Development Document 9)