Heaton, Stratford Road, Robin Sheeps Cave

HER Number

16437

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Heaton, Stratford Road, Robin Sheeps Cave

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26NE

Class

Monument <By Form>

Site Type: Broad

Natural Feature

Site Type: Specific

Cave

General Period

UNCERTAIN

Specific Period

Uncertain

Form of Evidence

Natural Feature

Description

Cave noted on the First Edition Ordnance Survey Plan 1858 and mentioned in Parson and White's trade directory of 1828. The entry in the directory is as follows: Opposite to this hall [Goldspink Hall] and just within the walls of the Heaton Plantations is Robin Sheeps Cave. A cold and solitary excavation in which tradition says Robin, a poor mendicant, lived for some years. This description is almost identical to the entry in Mackenzie's History of Northumberland, 1825, Vol 2.

Easting

426210

Northing

565260

Grid Reference

NZ426210565260

Sources

Ordnance Survey first edition 1858; Parson & White, 1828, History, Directory and Gazeteer of the Counties of Durham and Northumberland and the towns and counties of Newcastle upon Tyne p402; Mackenzie, E, 1825, An historical, topographical and descriptive view of the County of Northumberland, and of those parts of the Country of Durham situated north of the River Tyne, with Berwick Upon Tweed, and brief notices of celebrated places on the Scottish Border, Vol. 2, p478