Threptend village

HER Number

43

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Threptend village

Place

Monkwearmouth

Map Sheet

NZ35NE

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Settlement

Site Type: Specific

Deserted Settlement

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

The provenance for this medieval village is based on a single known documentary reference. In the Durham Priory bursar's account of 1348-9 Threptend is listed among the vills owing tithes to the cell of Wearmouth. On the assumption that it therefore lay within the parish of Monkwearmouth it must have been situated on the north side of the River Wear.

Easting

439818

Northing

557766

Grid Reference

NZ439818557766

Sources

<< HER 43 >> Canon Fowler, ed. 1899, Extracts from the Account Rolls of the Abbey of Durham, Surtees Society, II, 100 (for 1898), p. 548,