Spital Tongues, Ropery

HER Number

4089

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Spital Tongues, Ropery

Place

Spital Tongues

Map Sheet

NZ26NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Rope Manufacturing Site

Site Type: Specific

Ropery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Spital Tongues Ropery is marked on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, but is not shown on the 2nd edition plan, indicating that it was probably out of use by 1895.

Easting

423690

Northing

565580

Grid Reference

NZ423690565580

Sources

<< HER 4089 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 97; North of England Civic Trust, February 2009, Spital Tongues, Newcastle upon Tyne - Suggested Conservation Area Scoping Study, Draft Report, p 11