Woode Close

HER Number

11540

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Woode Close

Place

Lemington

Map Sheet

NZ16NE

Class

Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad

Managed Woodland

Site Type: Specific

Wood

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Stuart 1603 to 1714

Form of Evidence

Placename Evidence

Description

'Woode Close' and 'Back of the Wood' on a plan of 1620 presumably indicates the presence of woodland. These woods had been cleared by 1767, probably to make way for industry and for building waggonways and boats.

Easting

417300

Northing

565100

Grid Reference

NZ417300565100

Sources

A plan of the manor of Newburn, 1620, Alnwick Castle Archives Class O, Div. xvii, No. 1; I. Thompson, 1767, A plan of the Lordship of Newburn belonging to the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, Northumberland Museum and Archives (Woodhorn) Sant/Beq/9/1/1/24 and 25; Jennifer Morrison, 2007, Newburn manor - an analysis of a changing medieval, post-medieval and early modern landscape in Newcastle upon Tyne, Vol 1, pp 45-46 (unpublished MA thesis, Durham University)