Wallsend Burn

HER Number:
11112

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Wallsend Burn

Place:
Wallsend

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE NZ36SW

Class:
Water Supply and Drainage

Site Type: Broad:
Watercourse

Site Type: Specific:
Stream

General Period:

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Natural Feature

Description:
Starts as two streams. From north of Cragside, then parallel with and south of Cragside over Benton Road and south-east to Etherstone Avenue. The other route runs from a pond east of Benton Road, south parallel with Benton Road to Etherstone Avenue. From there one burn runs south over Coast Road, east-south-east to cross Benfield Road, south-south-east and then east to Willington Cut. This forms the boundary between Newcastle and Wallsend.

Easting:
2835

Northing:
6616

Grid Reference:
NZ28356616

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Map of courses of old burns and streams in Newcastle, undated but post 1928 as Tyne Bridge is shown, School of Architecture Library