Drill Hall

HER Number

11566

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Drill Hall

Place

Walbottle

Map Sheet

NZ16NE

Class

Defence

Site Type: Broad

Military Training Site

Site Type: Specific

Drill Hall

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

By 1898 a rifle range (HER 4225) and drill hall had been installed for the Second Volunteer Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. At this time there was an increase in volunteer military activity in response to the increased threat of invasion from France and Germany. Landowners often encouraged the formation of local rifle volunteers.

Easting

416750

Northing

566100

Grid Reference

NZ416750566100

Sources

Ordnance Survey Second Edition, 1898; D. Petts with C.M. Gerrard, 2006, Shared Visions: The North-East Regional Research Framework for the Historic Environment, p. 107; Jennifer Morrison, 2007, Newburn manor - an analysis of a changing medieval, post-medieval and early modern landscape in Newcastle upon Tyne, Vol 1, p 71 (unpublished MA thesis, Durham University)