Ryton, stocks

HER Number

621

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Ryton, stocks

Place

Ryton

Map Sheet

NZ16SE

Class

Civil

Site Type: Broad

Legal Site

Site Type: Specific

Stocks

General Period

UNCERTAIN

Specific Period

Uncertain

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

There is a 19th century record of the remains of the village stocks, which stood at one time near the Cross, surviving near to the door leading from the rectory. W.A.Cocks told the Ordnance Survey in 1952 that he remembered seeing stocks near the Rectory when he was a boy.

Easting

415200

Northing

564700

Grid Reference

NZ415200564700

Sources

<< HER 621 >> W. Bourn, 1896, History of the Parish of Ryton, p. 26
Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, JHO, 1952, Stocks (site)