Walbottle, Drill Hall

HER Number:
11566

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Walbottle, Drill Hall

Place:
Walbottle

Map Sheet:
NZ16NE

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:
Military Training Site

Site Type: Specific:
Drill Hall

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
By 1898 a rifle range (HER 4225) and drill hall had been installed for the Second Volunteer Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. At this time there was an increase in volunteer military activity in response to the increased threat of invasion from France and Germany. Landowners often encouraged the formation of local rifle volunteers.

Easting:
1675

Northing:
6610

Grid Reference:
NZ16756610

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Ordnance Survey Second Edition, 1898; D. Petts with C.M. Gerrard, 2006, Shared Visions: The North-East Regional Research Framework for the Historic Environment, p. 107; Jennifer Morrison, 2007, Newburn manor - an analysis of a changing medieval, post-medieval and early modern landscape in Newcastle upon Tyne, Vol 1, p 71 (unpublished MA thesis, Durham University)