Two mounds once existed on either side of a stream running into Stote's Powe in Walker. They were published by Horsley in 1732 as tumuli, and later mapped by MacLauchlan, though not by the OS for the 1st ed. The east one survived to be recorded on the 2nd ed. map, and became a SAM. In 1929 Wake described it as 72 ft in diam., 6.5 ft high, and as his trench showed charcoal and a platform of stones he interpreted it as a barrow. Jobey dug it in 1964 in advance of its levelling, and described it as a grass-grown mound at the junction of Tumulus Place and Tumulus Avenue. He found early plough marks, a roadway thought to be part of the Military Way, a post-Roman ditch, three clay layers (one of which was suggested as the product of local industry due to the presence of burnt wood, earth, turf and fired clay) and later ploughing, and the mound itself. There was no evidence for either its date or function.

"The Rev. J. Bewick, of Shields, has presented a few Roman bronze objects lately discovered in debris of the Roman wall at Walker, viz., a fibula of the usual form, 4 coins of the higher empire, and a nondescript crown-like article which had probably been sewn on leather. The Society of Antiquaries has purchased a fine quern from the same locality". Part of the proceedings at a meeting on 1 April 1863 {1}. It has been suggested that the 'non descript crown-like object' refers to a peltate mount donated to the Society of Antiquaries probably in 1863. This is the most complete example of a mount decorated with three-dimensional figures of reclining tigers found in Britain (in 1992). Similar examples have been found in Eccles and Corbridge. The Walker mount depicts two griffin's heads and a crouching feline {2}.

"Humphrey Lisle in 1539 granted the water mill of South Gosforth to William Hetherwick". Later known as Harrick's Mill, it seems to have continued in use into the C19, and to have become part of a hamlet which, in 1813, was the subject of a conveyance and described as "a Water Corn Mill, Public House, Cottages and Closes of land…". The OS 1st ed. Shows the mill on the west bank of the Ouse Burn, east of Haddrick's Mill Road, and south of the present road junction. A mill race came off the burn north of the junction, and ran alongside the road to the mill. The NCH reported the mill as having been long disused. Said to be the abode of outlaws. Tomlinson records that the name may have come from a "notorious Danish freebooter named Hendrick or Hadderick, who made the dene beside the mill his home, and set the authorities at defiance". Sir Walter Scott's smuggler and pirate in "Guy Mannering" was called "Dirk Hatterick". Welford said that the play "The Miller and his Men" was based on incidents which occurred at Haddrick's Mill. Dated C16th.

Early commentators (Bruce - Handbook of Newcastle; and Gray Chorographia, 1649) thought that the Royal estate capital "Ad Murum" ("by the wall"), mentioned by Bede, might be Pandon (see also Pandon Hall HER 6621). Pandon was one of the three parts into which Byker was divided, and lay east of Pandon Burn. It seems probable that the earliest part of the settlement was at Stockbridge, and that reclamation, followed by development, was south towards the Tyne and east, a C14 building having been found in Byker Chare. In the second half of the C13 a quay wall had been built and abandoned south of the street today called Pandon, and in 1296 there were as many as 20 taxpayers in Pandon. In 1299 Pandon was annexed by and subsumed into Newcastle, and lost its distinct identity. The Pandon Burn formed a small harbour at high-water, inundating ground as far north as the foot of Manor Chare. During the reign of Edward III (1327-77) a flood destroyed 140 houses and killed over 120 people. The burn was culverted in C19. Modern scholars suggest that Walbottle is more likely to be the site of "Ad Murum" (see HER 7918). By the 19th century Pandon had become a slum with only two water supply points and 6 privies. In 1851 All Saints Parish (which includes Pandon) was the most densely populated area in the country with 3000 people per acre. Pandon still retains much of its pre-19th century layout and street names. Dated C13th.

In the first half of the C14 the manor was held by the Byker family, and in the ipm of Robert of Byker in 1354 it was said that it was "held for the service of looking after beasts and chattels taken in the name of distraint for the king, as well as payment of 40s yearly". In 1428 it was held by Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland, by the service of a quarter of a knight's fee and the rent of 40s. From c. 1463 to 1543 Byker was held by the corporation of Newcastle as a tenant of various lords. It was then sold to James Lawson of Newcastle, and in the 19th century sold off in portions. It is not known how far the manor corresponded in area with the township of Byker, or whether there was a manorial centre, perhaps associated with the onetime manor house. Dated C14th.

As the earliest reference to this chapel the NCH cites a (probably late C12) grant of Gosforth cum monasterio to Robert de Lisle. Though in the parish of St. Nicholas Newcastle, it was for a time "a free chapel, with its own rector, in the patronage of the de Lisles", though eventually the vicar of St. Nicholas obtained the right to present to the living. While, in 1650, it was recommended that this chapel should be made the parish church of the district, in 1663 it was said to have been destitute for 2 years and in ruins. It was described in 1715 as 11 x 8 yards, with a west tower 4 yards square, and to be built of stone and roofed with slate. In 1799 a new chapel was built here, though whether on or beside the site of the old one is not clear. Part of the 18th century building (a parish church from the C19) survives, with extensive C19-20th century enlargements, in its own churchyard (HER 9146). Dated C12th.

The earliest reference is 1198, as the sergeanty of Byker. There were 4 taxpayers in 1296, 5 in 1312. A 2-row green village is perhaps suggested by the 1st ed. OS. It lay at the junction of 2 roads, Headlam Street coming from the north, Allendale Road / Welbeck Road from the south and east. Major redevelopment in the second half of the 20th century has left the site barely recognizable. The township was twice reduced in size at its west end. In 1299 its land between Pandon Burn and Swirle was transferred to Newcastle, and in 1549 Newcastle acquired all the ground to the Ouse Burn. Dated C12th.

Killingworth Moor was enclosed in 1793, under an act of 1790. It lay between grid lines NZ 258 (W), 313 (E), 714 (N), 686 (S), had a maximum altitude of 68 m and amounted to 1800 acres. Rights of common belonged to the owners of land in the townships of Killingworth and Long Benton; the lord of the manor was the Earl of Carlisle. Newcastle races were run here in the C17, and "Scaffold Hill is said to take its name from the stands which were erected there for spectators of the races. The moor was also used for military reviews". It is interesting that, by the time of the 1st ed. OS, two of the allotments at the NW corner of the moor had become the property of the Brandlings, and part of Gosforth Park. Much of the centre of the moor is today built over.

In 1825 Mackenzie published the following: "There is a curious old house on the south side of the village (Byker), now a public house known by the name of the Blue Bell. The walls, like those of all ancient buildings, are very thick…". In 1844 G.B. Richardson sketched it - a rectangular 3 bay 2 storey building with attic (dormer window) and, attached at one end, a single bay 2 storey block, with an external end stair. The main house had 3 light mullioned windows beneath drip mouldings, a central projecting 2 storey porch, and was probably of stone with a pan-tiled roof between gables with stone water tables and kneelers. There was a curious 3 light opening at ground level beneath one of the windows. It is marked, in Gothic letters, as "Manor House" on the 1st ed. OS map. Date of demolition is not known at the moment. Occupied by the Dent family in 1601, and later by the Lawsons and in 1730 Edward Collingwood.

"In 1354 it was found that Robert of Byker (died 1349) had been seised of 42 acres in Shieldfield... a limekiln worth 3s 3d...". It is not clear from this document as to whether all the property listed was in Shieldfield, or could have been elsewhere. The area of the limekilns excavated on the west shore of the Swirle was transferred to Newcastle in 1299; Shieldfield was included within Newcastle in 1549. This one must remain no more than a documentary reference. Dated C14th.