Tyne and Wear HER(11528): Newburn, tollbooth - Details
11528
Newcastle
Newburn, tollbooth
Newburn
NZ16NE
Civil
Law Court
Court House
Post Medieval
C17
Documentary Evidence
Mayson's survey of 1613 mentions 'Newburn Towle booth'. Gateshead town had a tollbooth from 1577 which acted as a market court and town gaol {Manders}. Court rolls of Newburn survive for 1761 to 1772 and these largely relate to minor incidents {Dodds}.
16
65
NZ1665
Mayson's Survey of 1613, Alnwick Castle Archives Class A, Div. iv, No. 2; F.W.D. Manders, 1973, A history of Gateshead, p 29; M.H. Dodds, 1930, A History of Northumberland XIII, p 150