Bensham, Union Workhouse

HER Number:
11776

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Bensham, Union Workhouse

Place:
Bensham

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Health and Welfare

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Workhouse

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Union workhouse, built 1840-1.

Easting:
2507

Northing:
6233

Grid Reference:
NZ25076233

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Kathryn Morrison (English Heritage and Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England), 1999, 'The Workhouse - a study of poor-law buildings in England', p 203