East Farm, Percy Terrace

HER Number

12128

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

East Farm, Percy Terrace

Place

Monkseaton

Map Sheet

NZ37SW

Class

Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad

Farm

Site Type: Specific

Farm

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

Demolished in 1961 and replaced with Relton Place. This was the last fully operational farm in Monkseaton. Its fields ran north from Souter Park alongside the Avenue branch line. In 1956 the landowner, the Duke of Northumberland, sold the farmland to Whitley Bay Council and the Churchill Playing Fields were created.

Easting

434407

Northing

572081

Grid Reference

NZ434407572081

Sources

North Tyneside Council Development Directorate, August 2006, Monkseaton Conservation Area Character Appraisal Draft; F Thompson, 1757, Plan of the Township of Monkseaton in the Parish of Tynemouth (NRO ZHE28/5)