Gateshead, Quikham Drawwater Fishery
Gateshead, Quikham Drawwater Fishery
HER Number
12286
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Gateshead, Quikham Drawwater Fishery
Place
Gateshead
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Site Type: Broad
Fishing Site
Site Type: Specific
Fish Weir
General Period
MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Medieval 1066 to 1540
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Quikham Drawwater in 1344. Means 'a stretch of water for drawing, to draw a net through for fish'. Belonged to the bishop of Durham. The main catch would have been salmon, but in fact a wider range of fish would have been taken (eg. Eels, pike, minnow, burbot, trout and lamprey' {G.N. Garmondsway (ed), 1939, 'Aelfric's Colloquy', pp 101-2}.
Easting
424000
Northing
563000
Grid Reference
NZ424000563000
Sources
Victor Watts, 1986, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names II in Durham Archaeological Journal, 2, 1986, pp 55-61