High Cross Brick Works

HER Number

4311

District

Newcastle

Site Name

High Cross Brick Works

Place

Elswick

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Brick and Tilemaking Site

Site Type: Specific

Brickworks

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

High Cross Brick Works are not shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so were probably opened after 1858.

Easting

422040

Northing

563730

Grid Reference

NZ422040563730

Sources

<< HER 4311 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 97, NW