Byker, Dent's Hole fishery
Byker, Dent's Hole fishery
HER Number
12302
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Byker, Dent's Hole fishery
Place
Byker
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Site Type: Broad
Fishing Site
Site Type: Specific
Fish Weir
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Stuart 1603 to 1714
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Dent's Hole was a deep pool in the Tyne west of St. Peter's Quay. It was named after the Bent family in the C17. The salmon fishery was still working, though depleted in 1885. 'Hol' is Old English for 'a deep place in a stream'.
Easting
427700
Northing
563500
Grid Reference
NZ427700563500
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. 274-7; R.J. Charleton, 1885, Newcastle Town, p 342