Wear Pottery
Wear Pottery
HER Number
2759
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Wear Pottery
Place
Southwick
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Pottery Manufacturing Site
Site Type: Specific
Pottery Works
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
The Wear Pottery, at Southwick, was also known as Southwick Union or Moore's Pottery and was working from 1753 to 1882.
Easting
438440
Northing
558210
Grid Reference
NZ438440558210
Sources
<< HER 2759 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 8
N.T. Sinclair in Milburn & Miller, (eds) 1988, Sunderland, River, Town & People, Industry to 1914, p.24
N.T. Sinclair in Milburn & Miller, (eds) 1988, Sunderland, River, Town & People, Industry to 1914, p.24