Byron's Quay

HER Number

17567

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Byron's Quay

Place

Monkwearmouth

Map Sheet

NZ35NE

Class

Maritime

Site Type: Broad

Landing Point

Site Type: Specific

Quay

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Byron's Quay is shown marked by an 'x' on Burleigh and Thompson's 'Plan of the mouth of the River Wear' 1737. This was one of the results of the River Wear Commission's work to improve the Wear. The Commission was founded by Act of Parliament in 1717 to manage the port's wharves, staithes, ballast quays and river channels, to allow the tide frier flow and improve navigation.

Easting

439400

Northing

557400

Grid Reference

NZ439400557400

Sources

Northern Archaeological Associates, 2017, Sheepfolds, Sunderland - Archaeological Desk Based Assessment, Building Recording and Geological Assessment, p 29; Burleigh and Thompson, 1737, Plan of the mouth of the River Wear; MM Meikle and CM Newman, 2007, Sunderland and its Origins: Monks to Mariners