Byker village

HER Number

1387

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Byker village

Place

Byker

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Settlement

Site Type: Specific

Village

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

The earliest reference is 1198. There were 4 taxpayers in 1296, 5 in 1312. A 2-row green village is perhaps suggested by the first edition Ordnance Survey plan. 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.

Easting

427400

Northing

564500

Grid Reference

NZ427400564500

Sources

<< HER 1387 >> W.H. Thompson, 1921, Northumberland Pleas, 1198-1272, Newcastle Record Series, II, no. 169
1669, Rental for part of Sir Francis Radcliffe's Estates, Northumberland Records Office ZCK, 14.1
1745, Billeting?, Northumberland Records Office ZRI, 27.4.80
Wm. Donkin, 1767, Sir Henry Lawson's lands lying at Byker, Northumberland Records Office ZAN, MSM 8
W. Hutchinson, 1776, View of Northumberland, II
(date unknown), Byker, Northumberland Records Office, Watson Coll, 27.1
W.S. Gibson, 1846, The History of the Monastery at Tynemouth, I, 172
Tithe Awards, 1851, Byker, Northumberland Records Office, DT 81 M
M.H. Dodds, 1930, Byker Township and The Sergeanty of Byker, Northumberland County History, XIII, 264-277