Billy Mill, Rifle Range

HER Number

2122

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Billy Mill, Rifle Range

Place

Billy Mill

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

Class

Defence

Site Type: Broad

Military Training Site

Site Type: Specific

Firing Range

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Historic Ordnance Survey Map evidence shows the location of a Rifle Range within the disused Billy Mill Quarry (HER ref. 2003). The range is not shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan and was therefore installed after 1858.

Easting

433570

Northing

569270

Grid Reference

NZ433570569270

Sources

<< HER 2122 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 89, SE; English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1405880; Ordnance Survey Map County of Northumberland 1:2500, 1897 and 1:10560, 1938