Greenside, Lead Road

HER Number

3320

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Greenside, Lead Road

Place

Greenside

Map Sheet

NZ15NW

Class

Transport

Site Type: Broad

Road Transport Site

Site Type: Specific

Road

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Stuart 1603 to 1714

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

The Lead Road probably went to the Quay at Stella from the North Pennines Orefield. It entered the County at Leadgate

Easting

417930

Northing

563600

Grid Reference

NZ417930563600

Sources

<< HER 3320 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 1; Eric Clavering and Alan Rounding, 1995, Early Tyneside Industrialism: The lower Derwent and Blaydon Burn Valleys 1550-1700, Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 5, Vol XXIII, page 262