North Shields, Gas Works

HER Number

2133

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

North Shields, Gas Works

Place

North Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Power Generation Site

Site Type: Specific

Gas Works

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

These gas works occupied part of the site of a Ropery (HER ref. 2017). The site is not shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan so was built after 1858.

Easting

434870

Northing

567740

Grid Reference

NZ434870567740

Sources

<< HER 2133 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 89, SE