Mailings Rigg, Lord Byron Tavern

Mailings Rigg, Lord Byron Tavern

HER Number

16786

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Mailings Rigg, Lord Byron Tavern

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Recreational

Site Type: Broad

Sports Building

Site Type: Specific

Boxing Arena

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Bare knuckle boxing took place here in the 1830s.

Easting

440600

Northing

557400

Grid Reference

NZ440600557400

Sources

2010, Played in Tyne and Wear - Charting the heritage of people at play, p 19