Whickham, Alcherles yar Fishery

HER Number

12226

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Whickham, Alcherles yar Fishery

Place

Whickham

Map Sheet

NZ16SE

Class

Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad

Fishing Site

Site Type: Specific

Fish Weir

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Alcherles yar in 1128, Alcherles yare, Ealdceorl's yair, Feilitzen 240. One of the bishop of Durham's weirs in Whickham township. The main catch would have been salmon, but in fact a wider range of fish would have been taken (eg. Eels, pike, minnow, burbot, trout and lamprey' {G.N. Garmondsway (ed), 1939, 'Aelfric's Colloquy', pp 101-2}.

Easting

419300

Northing

564000

Grid Reference

NZ419300564000

Sources

Victor Watts, 1986, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names II in Durham Archaeological Journal, 2, 1986, pp 55-61