Cattle Market

HER Number:
5066

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Cattle Market

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:
Market

Site Type: Specific:
Livestock Market

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. Now built over by International Centre for Life. Sheep and cattle markets were first held here on 27th July 1830. Before, and even after that time, Newcastle butchers bought their cattle at Morpeth Market. Newcastle's cattle market soon overtook Morpeth. Cattle markets were held every Tuesday. In 1843 the space for holding the market was enlarged and proper facilities built. There were 618 pens for sheep, 9 fold yards for cattle with two entrances from the street each 8 yards wide. By OS second edition a new cattle market had been built with slaughter houses on the former Knox's Field. The former cattle market was now a sheep and pig market.

Easting:
424360

Northing:
563770

Grid Reference:
NZ424360563770

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5066 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1850; Thomas Oliver, 1844, Historical and Descriptive Reference to the Public Buildings on the Plan of the Borough of Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead