Shields Road, Long Row

HER Number

10001

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Shields Road, Long Row

Place

Byker

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Industrial House

Site Type: Specific

Workers Cottage

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Georgian 1714 to 1830

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Most of these properties were built in 1785 for the miners of Bigges Main Colliery but must have also housed men from Heaton Main Colliery.

Easting

427310

Northing

565070

Grid Reference

NZ427310565070

Sources

Ordnance Survey Second Edition of 1896; Turnbull, L, 2015, A Celebration of our Mining Heritage