Byker, Quarry

HER Number

4335

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Byker, Quarry

Place

Byker

Map Sheet

NZ26NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Mineral Extraction Site

Site Type: Specific

Quarry

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

This Quarry, with an associaated smithy is shown on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey plan, but is not shown on the 1st edition plan, indicating that it was in use after 1858.

Easting

427400

Northing

565080

Grid Reference

NZ427400565080

Sources

<< HER 4335 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 97, NE