Westoe, Sancte Hildear' Fishery

HER Number

12259

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Westoe, Sancte Hildear' Fishery

Place

Westoe

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad

Fishing Site

Site Type: Specific

Fish Weir

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Sancte Hildear in 1128, Hildeiare in 1195, Sancte Hilde yare. From the personal name Hild or Hilde. One of the monks' weirs, presumably belonging to the chapel of St. Hild. The main catch would have been salmon, but in fact a wider range of fish would have been taken (eg. Eels, pike, minnow, burbot, trout and lamprey' {G.N. Garmondsway (ed), 1939, 'Aelfric's Colloquy', pp 101-2}.

Easting

435000

Northing

566000

Grid Reference

NZ435000566000

Sources

Victor Watts, 1986, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names II in Durham Archaeological Journal, 2, 1986, pp 55-61