Gateshead, cock pits

HER Number

16992

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Gateshead, cock pits

Place

Gateshead

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Recreational

Site Type: Broad

Baiting Place

Site Type: Specific

Cockpit

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Two cockpits are recorded in Gateshead in 1746. One was the New Cover'd Pit, which hosted fights with round pointed silver spurs.

Grid Reference

Sources

Lynn Pearson, 2010, Played in Tyne and Wear - Charting the heritage of people at play, p 129