Bogg Wood

HER Number

15503

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Bogg Wood

Place

Throckley

Map Sheet

NZ16NW

Class

Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad

Managed Woodland

Site Type: Specific

Wood

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Small area of woodland shown on a plan of Throckley dated 1736. The same map shows fields called West and East Bank. 'Hagg' and 'bank' are old words for wood.

Easting

414660

Northing

565970

Grid Reference

NZ414660565970

Sources

Plan of the Throckley Estate in the County of Northumberland - freehold lands described within the boundary of this planformerly belonged to John Rogers Esq. now to Edward Montague Esq., 1736, NRO Sant/Beq/9/1/1/34 (Woodhorn); J. Richardson, 1974, The local historian's encyclopedia, p 15; Jennifer Morrison, 2007, Newburn Manor - an analysis of a changing medieval, post-medieval and early modern landscape in Newcastle upon Tyne, unpublished MA thesis, University of Durham