Hebburn, Lead Works

HER Number

2507

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Hebburn, Lead Works

Place

Hebburn

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Metal Industry Site

Site Type: Specific

Lead Works

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

This Lead Works is marked as ‘Disused’ on the 2nd editionOrdnance Survey plan and is not shown on the 1st edition, so was in use some time between 1855 and 1895. These works occupied part of the site of earlier Coke Ovens (HER ref. 2225).

Easting

430260

Northing

565260

Grid Reference

NZ430260565260

Sources

<< HER 2507 >> 2nd edition, Ordnance Survey map, 1898, 6 inch scale, Durham, 3, SW