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

Lats/Lons:

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