All Saints Chapelry, medieval fishery

HER Number

12288

District

Newcastle

Site Name

All Saints Chapelry, medieval fishery

Place

Newcastle

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

A fishery in the Tyne is mentioned here in 1549.

Easting

425000

Northing

563000

Grid Reference

NZ425000563000

Sources

V.E. Watts, 1988, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names III in Durham Archaeological Journal, 4, 1988, pp 53-59; M.H. Dodds, 1930, A History of Northumberland, Vol. XIII, p. 260