Old Trunk Staith, Iron Foundry
Old Trunk Staith, Iron Foundry
HER Number
4403
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Old Trunk Staith, Iron Foundry
Place
Gateshead
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Metal Industry Site
Site Type: Specific
Iron Foundry
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
There is a record of iron founding houses at the east end of Old Trunk Staith, location not known, leased by Cotesworth to Cookson and Button. The concern prospered and a steel furnace warehouse was added.
Easting
424790
Northing
563190
Grid Reference
NZ424790563190
Sources
<< HER 4403 >> F.W.D. Manders, 1973, A History of Gateshead, p 65
Documentary, Cotesworth Mss. CA/2/65
Documentary, Cotesworth Mss. CA/2/65