Elswick, Rope Walk
Elswick, Rope Walk
HER Number
4905
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Elswick, Rope Walk
Place
Elswick
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Rope Manufacturing Site
Site Type: Specific
Ropewalk
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
An open rope walk is shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map of 1859, but not on the 2nd edition 1894 map, when it had been built over by a school and a number of other unidentified buildings, probably industrial in nature. It is not shown on an 1849 map of the area, however, and is unlikely to have consisted of any substantial structures.
Easting
424130
Northing
563090
Grid Reference
NZ424130563090
Sources
<< HER 4905 >> Northern Archaeological Associates, 2000, Elswick Lead Works, Newcastle upon Tyne, Archaeological Assessment