Groat Market (Meal Market)

HER Number

6500

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Groat Market (Meal Market)

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Commercial

Site Type: Broad

Market

Site Type: Specific

Market

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

Its east side was destroyed for the new Town Hall and Exchange in 1855 and in the early 1960s a large section on the west side was cleared for Thomson House. Groats were a cereal; they were oats with the husks removed or the grains crushed and were used to feed humans and animals.

Easting

424890

Northing

564070

Grid Reference

NZ424890564070

Sources

H. Bourne, 1736, The History of Newcastle upon Tyne, p 52; N. Pevsner and I. Richmond, second edition revised by G. McCombie, P. Ryder and H. Welfare, 1992, The Buildings of England: Northumberland (second edition); D. Lovie, 1997, The Buildings of Grainger Town; I. Ayris, 1997, A City of Palaces; H. Bourne, 1736, The History of Newcastle upon Tyne, p 55