Magdalen's Well
Magdalen's Well
HER Number
1503
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Magdalen's Well
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Water Supply and Drainage
Site Type: Broad
Water Storage Site
Site Type: Specific
Well
General Period
UNCERTAIN
Specific Period
Uncertain
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Wake concluded Isaac Thompson's map of 1746 that there was a stream issuing from what appeared to be Magdalen's Well near Pandon Burn. There is no other evidence for a well so named.
Easting
425000
Northing
564900
Grid Reference
NZ425000564900
Sources
<< HER 1503 >> Isaac Thompson, 1746, Newcastle upon Tyne - Newcastle Library Local Studies
T. Wake, 1937, Isaac Thompson's Plan of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1746, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XIV, 117
M.H. Dodds, 1947, Additional Holy Wells of Northumberland and Durham,Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 4, X (for 1942-46), 205
T. Wake, 1937, Isaac Thompson's Plan of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1746, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XIV, 117
M.H. Dodds, 1947, Additional Holy Wells of Northumberland and Durham,Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 4, X (for 1942-46), 205