Sandgate Fort

In the summer of 1648 the common council initiated the building of a fort in Sandgate, sited in the angle made by the east face of the town wall outside Sand Gate and the Tyne. In 1656 there was a dispute as to ownership of the site, and a request was made to be allowed to dump "rubbish into the trench". After the restoration the fort fell into decay; and its site became a waste called Sandgate Midding. It is supposed, in the second half of the 17th century, to have been the site of Cuthbert Dykes' Folly.