Ouseburn Iron Works

HER Number

5572

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Ouseburn Iron Works

Place

Ouseburn

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Metal Industry Site

Site Type: Specific

Iron Works

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. J. Spencer & Sons are listed as having a forge department on Foundry Lane in Ward's Directory of 1892. A locomotive was built here at the first Ouseburn foundry, Crowther's Ironworks, for the Lambton Wagonway in 1815.

Easting

426280

Northing

564460

Grid Reference

NZ426280564460

Sources

<< HER 5572 >> Pers. Comm. M. Greatbatch, 2004, Ouseburn Heritage Officer