Gateshead, Friar's Goose, running track

Tyne and Wear HER(16967): Gateshead, Friar's Goose, running track - Details

HER Number:
16967

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, Friar's Goose, running track

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:

Class:
Recreational

Site Type: Broad:
Racing Sports Site

Site Type: Specific:
Athletics Track

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Opened in 1872. There was still a running track in Gateshead in the 1880s. It had closed by 1935.

Easting:
427509

Northing:
563185

Grid Reference:
NZ427509563185

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Lynn Pearson, 2010, Played in Tyne and Wear - Charting the heritage of people at play, p 114