Westoe, Hebear Fishery

HER Number:
12243

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Westoe, Hebear Fishery

Place:
Westoe

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad:
Fish Trap

Site Type: Specific:
Fish Weir

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C12

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Hebear in 1128, Hebbeiare before 1195, Ebbe yare, Ebyare 1430, 1438-9. One of the monks fisheries. 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:
35

Northing:
66

Grid Reference:
NZ3566

Lats/Lons:

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