Elswick, staiths

HER Number

1368

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Elswick, staiths

Place

Elswick

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Transport

Site Type: Broad

Water Transport Site

Site Type: Specific

Staith

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Staiths were included in the $40 rent to Tynemouth Priory for their coal pits in Elswick in 1378. In his lease of the Elswick pits in 1530 Christopher Mitford had liberty to take timber to maintain the staiths, and staith leave was included in 1538. No precise location is known.

Easting

422570

Northing

563330

Grid Reference

NZ422570563330

Sources

<< HER 1368 >> W.S. Gibson, 1846, The History of the Monastery at Tynemouth I, 197, 203
M.H. Dodds, 1930, Elswick Township,Northumberland County History, XIII, 241