Blaydon Foundry

HER Number

3436

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Blaydon Foundry

Place

Blaydon

Map Sheet

NZ16SE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Engineering Industry Site

Site Type: Specific

Foundry

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Blaydon Foundry. Owned by Smith Patterson. Made mileposts for Northumberland and the Isle of Mull. There are two types in Northumberland, which still survive. Those on the road from Newcastle to Belsay are shield shaped. Those between Morpeth and Belford are rugby ball shaped. In 1856 GW Hawdon & Sons were based at a Blaydon Foundry (iron and brass founders and millwrights).

Easting

418310

Northing

563530

Grid Reference

NZ418310563530

Sources

<< HER 3436 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 2; William Whelan, 1856, History, Topography and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham