Ravensworth, carriage drives

HER Number

13470

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Ravensworth, carriage drives

Place

Ravensworth

Map Sheet

NZ25NW

Class

Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces

Site Type: Broad

Drive

Site Type: Specific

Drive

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

There were two carriage drives into the park. The line of the former 18th century carriage drive ran from Watergate Bank and is visible as a linear clearing through the woodland. The other drive is still extant as an access road and links the castle and Trench Hall to Watergate Bank at North Lodge and the castle to Coach Road at South Lodge.The woodland belt runs parallel to this carriage drive and an avenue of yew trees flanks it as it turns north towards the Butter Cross.

Easting

424020

Northing

559020

Grid Reference

NZ424020559020

Sources

North of England Civic Trust, April 2008, Ravensworth Castle and Estate, Gateshead, Conservation Plan, Appendix A, page 89, gazetteer nos. 2A and 5A