High Greenside

High Greenside

HER Number
19109
District
Gateshead
Site Name
High Greenside
Place
Ryton
Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Site Type: Broad
Farm
Site Type: Specific
Farmstead
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Post Medieval 1540 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
While Greenside (HER 19107) is depicted on earlier mapping, High Greenside was first identified on the Ordnance Survey First Edition of 1862, surveyed in 1856. High Greenside is a farmstead off the main road which appears to comprise an east-west range of buildings surrounded by fields. Evidence of narrow ridge and furrow cultivation has been identified in aerial photographs to the north of the farm buildings which indicates a post-medieval origin for the farm. However, the farm appears to have been demolished between 1895 and 1914 with the current farmhouse and cricket ground on the site today.
Easting
413923
Northing
562466
Grid Reference
NZ413923562466
Sources
Ordnance Survey. 1862. Durham Sheet V. Six Inches to the Mile. (Surveyed 1856).
Ordnance Survey. 1899. Durham Sheet V. Six Inches to the Mile. (Surveyed 1894 to 1895).
Ordnance Survey. 1921. Durham Sheet V. Six Inches to the Mile. (Surveyed 1914 to 1915).