Usworth Common

HER Number

2603

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Usworth Common

Place

Usworth

Map Sheet

NZ25NE

Class

Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad

Common Land

Site Type: Specific

Common Land

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Usworth Common is shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan to be sub-divided into many small, irregularly shaped areas. Two areas of past quarrying (HER refs. 2601 & 2602) are shown within the Common, but this pattern of sub-division may represent much earlier quarrying.

Easting

428710

Northing

558340

Grid Reference

NZ428710558340

Sources

<< HER 2603 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 7