Quayside, Broad Garth

HER Number

10487

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Quayside, Broad Garth

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Transport

Site Type: Broad

Road Transport Site

Site Type: Specific

Alley

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

There were no minor streets or chares running off the Quayside before 1376, although the word "Key" is used four times from 1332 to 1366. From Sandhill to Sandgate there were 20 chares which survived until the mid C19. Most were so narrow that two people could not walk abreast. Their date of origin is unknown, earliest reference is C14. Confusingly named 'Trinity Chare' on Ordnance Survey second edition. Not to be confused with HER 10489. Sales document of 1657 (TWAS 544/76, f30r).

Easting

425360

Northing

563910

Grid Reference

NZ425360563910

Sources

Sales Document, Tyne and Wear Archives 544/76, f30r; Surtees Society 112, p 15; H. Bourne, 1736, The History of Newcastle upon Tyne; B. Harbottle and P. Clack, 1976, Newcastle upon Tyne - Archaeology and Development in D.W. Harding (ed), 1976, Archaeology in the North; W. Collard and M. Ross, 1842, Architectural and Picturesque Views in Newcastle upon Tyne; J. and J. Leslie, 2002, Bygone Quayside and the Chares; Barbara Harbottle, 2009, The Medieval Archaeology of Newcastle in Diana Newton and AJ Pollard (eds), 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead before 1700, pages 31-32