Maiden's Walk

HER Number

8224

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Maiden's Walk

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Transport

Site Type: Broad

Road Transport Site

Site Type: Specific

Road

General Period

ROMAN

Specific Period

Roman 43 to 410

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

The present Scotswood Road may follow the line of an earlier lane depicted as Maiden's Walk on Wood's map of 1827. This may have been a Roman road and was described as "an old footpath" by Charleton.

Easting

424160

Northing

563520

Grid Reference

NZ424160563520

Sources

John Wood's map of Newcastle, 1827; R.J. Charleton, 1885, Newcastle Town, p 375