Wallsend, Bondewyar fishery

HER Number

12292

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Wallsend, Bondewyar fishery

Place

Wallsend

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

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

Bondewyar in 1128, Bondeniare in 1195, yare c.1225, Bondewe yare. 'Bonda' is Old English for a peasant landowner. This was a weir or yare belonging to the monks of Durham in Wallsend.

Easting

430600

Northing

565800

Grid Reference

NZ430600565800

Sources

V.E. Watts, 1988, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names III in Durham Archaeological Journal, 4, 1988, pp 53-59