Southwick Pottery

Southwick Pottery

HER Number
2764
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Southwick 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
Southwick Pottery was Sunderland's largest pottery, owned by the Scott family. It operated from 1788 to 1896.
Easting
438520
Northing
558180
Grid Reference
NZ438520558180
Sources
<< HER 2764 >> 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.22,24