Black Stones Fishery

HER Number

12291

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Black Stones Fishery

Place

Newburn

Map Sheet

NZ16SE

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 is recorded at Newburn from 1500 to c.1700. It extended from the west boundary of the manor of Newburn to the east boundary adjoining Sugley grounds at Lemington. The rent of the Newburn and part of Crumbwells fisheries in 1851 was £100.

Easting

417600

Northing

564500

Grid Reference

NZ417600564500

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, pp. 146-52