Low Eighton, Dam

HER Number

3872

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Low Eighton, Dam

Place

Low Eighton

Map Sheet

NZ25NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Power Generation Site

Site Type: Specific

Dam

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

This feature is shown on the First Edition Ordnance Survey map as a circular pond with channels leading the northeast and southwest, the latter very short, and enclosed by a wall or fence, and labelled 'Dam'. The site is no longer labelled on the Second Edition map and now lies below a road.

Easting

426740

Northing

557750

Grid Reference

NZ426740557750

Sources

<< HER 3872 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 7