Monkwearmouth, Ropery

HER Number

4449

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Monkwearmouth, Ropery

Place

Monkwearmouth

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Rope Manufacturing Site

Site Type: Specific

Ropery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

This Ropery is shown on Wood’s 1826 map but is not shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map of the area.

Easting

440070

Northing

557880

Grid Reference

NZ440070557880

Sources

<< HER 4449 >> J. Woods, 1826, Plan of the Towns of Sunderland, Bishopwearmouth and Monkwearmouth