Tyne and Wear HER(12253): Gateshead, Grene yar' Fishery - Details
12253
Gateshead
Gateshead, Grene yar' Fishery
Gateshead
NZ26SW
Agriculture and Subsistence
Fish Trap
Fish Weir
Medieval
C12
Documentary Evidence
Grene yar' in 1128, Greneyre in 1279. 'grene' is Old English for 'green' or 'grassy spot or village green'. Owned by the bishop of Durham. Found guilty of trespass by 42 fathoms beyond its allowed limits in 1279. 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}.
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62
NZ2362
Victor Watts, 1986, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names II in Durham Archaeological Journal, 2, 1986, pp 55-61