Oakwellgate, Bush Inn
Oakwellgate, Bush Inn
HER Number
7863
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Oakwellgate, Bush Inn
Place
Gateshead
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Commercial
Site Type: Broad
Inn
Site Type: Specific
Inn
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Stuart 1603 to 1714
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Tradition says that King Charles I stayed at the "Bush Inn" in Oakwellgate when passing through the town. In 1836 part of the inn was used as Gateshead's first town hall. The whole property later became tenements.
Easting
425500
Northing
563600
Grid Reference
NZ425500563600
Sources
D. Lumley, 1932, The Story of Gateshead Town - From the earliest age to the mid Victorian, p 53