Market Place

HER Number

3593

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Market Place

Place

Houghton-le-Spring

Map Sheet

NZ34NW

Class

Commercial

Site Type: Broad

Market

Site Type: Specific

Market Place

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition of 1850. This was the core of Houghton-le-Spring two-row medieval village. The original street arrangement can still be discerned to an extent.

Easting

434690

Northing

549940

Grid Reference

NZ434690549940

Sources

Ordnance Survey first edition 1850