Killingworth, Green Lane, old village tap

HER Number:
11370

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Killingworth, Green Lane, old village tap

Place:
Killingworth

Map Sheet:
NZ27SE

Class:
Water Supply and Drainage

Site Type: Broad:
Water Tap

Site Type: Specific:
Village Tap

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
Used as a drinking water supply in early C20. It often gave so little water that the villagers had to travel to the Letch Well half a mile to the south.

Easting:
2811

Northing:
7096

Grid Reference:
NZ28117096

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Maurice Milne, 2003, Ye Historie of Killingworth, second edition, Killingworth Local History Society