Cold Well

HER Number

2592

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Cold Well

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Water Supply and Drainage

Site Type: Broad

Water Storage Site

Site Type: Specific

Well

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

A possible site associated with glassmaking is marked on a map of South Shields and Westoe of 1768 as "Cold Well used to make Glass", but no other information is given, so the site could be a sand quarry, for example rather than a glassworks. Two wells and a pump are marked on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map of the area, which is now known as Cauldwell.

Easting

437100

Northing

565520

Grid Reference

NZ437100565520

Sources

<< HER 2592 >> County Conservation Team, 1989, Simonside, South Shields, Copy of Richardson, 1768, Plan of.South Shields. p.5