Nether Heworth, Hemmiges yar' Fishery

HER Number:
12258

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Nether Heworth, Hemmiges yar' Fishery

Place:
Heworth

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

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:
Hemmiges yar' in 1128, Hemmingesiare in 1195, Hemmyngyare in 1313, Hemunges, hemminges yare, le Hemmyngyar 1438-9. Could be a personal name - 'Hemming' means place associated with or belonging to Hemma. 'Hemming' in old English means enclosure or dam. 'Hemm' is a border. 'Hamm' is an enclosure. Owned by the monks. 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:
28

Northing:
62

Grid Reference:
NZ2862

Lats/Lons:

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