Benwell Bank Top

HER Number

6364

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Benwell Bank Top

Place

Benwell

Map Sheet

NZ26NW

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Settlement

Site Type: Specific

Hamlet

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Recorded by the Royal Engineers as "a small hamlet on the north side of the Newcastle & Carlisle turnpike road, it consists of a public house and a few dwellinghouses" during surveying for the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map in 1858.

Easting

421170

Northing

565030

Grid Reference

NZ421170565030

Sources

1st edition Ordnance Survey map
Notes by I Farrier 2023, West Newcastle Picture History Collection