Lawe Bank, battery
Lawe Bank, battery
HER Number
950
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Lawe Bank, battery
Place
South Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Defence
Site Type: Broad
Fortification
Site Type: Specific
Gun Emplacement
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
A writer in 1826 says: 'On the Lawe Bank facing the sea is a guard-house and battery of four guns..., Soon after the close of the last war (that is, the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo) the guns were removed from this battery to Tynemouth on the opposite side of the river.
Easting
436500
Northing
568100
Grid Reference
NZ436500568100
Sources
<< HER 950 >> Parsons & White, 1827, History and Gazetteer of Durham and Northumberland, 1, 277
G.B. Hodgson, 1903, The Borough of South Shields, p. 86
W. Brockie, 1851, History of South Shields, p 68-70
W. Brockie, 1851, History of South Shields, p 68-70
G.B. Hodgson, 1903, The Borough of South Shields, p. 86
W. Brockie, 1851, History of South Shields, p 68-70
W. Brockie, 1851, History of South Shields, p 68-70