Low Greenside

HER Number

19108

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Low Greenside

Place

Ryton

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Settlement

Site Type: Specific

Hamlet

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Post Medieval 1540 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Physical Evidence

Description

While Greenside (HER 19107) is depicted on earlier mapping, Low Greenside and High Greenside are first identified on the Ordnance Survey First Edition of 1862, surveyed in 1857. Low Greenside is a small nucleated hamlet south of the fork leading to Crawcrook to the west and Woodside to the east. Though possibly agricultural, the two quarry pits north-east of the houses indicate the possible reason for the establishment of this small settlement.

Easting

414059

Northing

562563

Grid Reference

NZ414059562563

Sources

Ordnance Survey. 1862. Durham Sheet I. Six Inches to the Mile. (Surveyed 1858).