Hebburn, Powder Magazine

HER Number

2529

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Hebburn, Powder Magazine

Place

Hebburn

Map Sheet

NZ36SW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Explosives Store

Site Type: Specific

Powder Magazine

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

A Powder Magazine, one of two (the other being HER ref. 2530). It is not shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so was working from after 1855.

Easting

431540

Northing

564840

Grid Reference

NZ431540564840

Sources

<< HER 2529 >> 2nd edition, Ordnance Survey map, 1898, 6 inch scale, Durham, 3, SE