Chirton, Ropery

Chirton, Ropery

HER Number

4569

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Chirton, Ropery

Place

Chirton

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Rope Manufacturing Site

Site Type: Specific

Ropery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

A ropery is shown at Chirton on Fryer's 1772 map and Wood’s 1827 map.

Easting

434970

Northing

568320

Grid Reference

NZ434970568320

Sources

<< HER 4569 >> J. Woods, 1826, Plan of the Towns of North Shields and Tynemouth