Newgate Street, Royal Scotch Arms

HER Number:
7895

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newgate Street, Royal Scotch Arms

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:
Inn

Site Type: Specific:
Inn

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Stuart 1603 to 1714

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
In the lower part of Newgate Street where the Swallow Hotel now stands (and before that the Empire Theatre) there used to be an inn called the Scotch Arms. It is the first recorded hostelry in Newcastle and appears on Speed's map of 1610.

Easting:
424690

Northing:
564160

Grid Reference:
NZ424690564160

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
F. Graham, 1976, Historic Newcastle, p 19; Brian Bennison, 1996, Heady Days - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Vol 1, The Central Area, p 13; Graham, F. 1959, Old Inns and Taverns of Northumberland