Seaton Burn, Six Mile Bridge

HER Number:
1066

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Seaton Burn, Six Mile Bridge

Place:
Seaton Burn

Map Sheet:
NZ27SW

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Bridge

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Six Mile Bridge sits on the Toll Road (HER ref. 1067). One source claims that a survey of the North Road of 1675 indicates a bridge over the Seaton Burn. A travellers map of 1769 shows an inn at the Six Mile Bridge. The inn is thought to have had its own brewery in the nineteenth century, but the presesnt inn dates from the early twentieth century.

Easting:
2396

Northing:
7347

Grid Reference:
NZ23967347

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1066 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 80